Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On 6/8/07, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 6/7/07, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Here is a really simple shell script that I wrote for "pdf2up", using
> >> their tool. There are lots of other fancy features that I did not
> >> need.
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cat $(which pdf2up)
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> java tool.pdf.Impose -nup 2 -paper letter $*
^^ should be "$@"
complete with quotes
> >Why not an alias?
>
> A one-line shell script seemed easier at the time.
>
> Bash aliases don't take arguments, although that would not be problem
> in this case.
No, what they do is append any arguments to the end of the alias. This
is why alias ll="ls -l" works as expected.
Use "$@" instead of $* in shell scripts when expanding arguments so that
way any whitespace in the arguments are preserved.
-john
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