On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Note how in pass two, foo and bar are no longer in the one line. Of >>>> course, passing ./two.sh "$@" works, but the argument parsing in makepkg >>>> clears that, hence the need to save it to ARGLIST. >> >> It's worth noting that the following works two: >> >> ./two.sh "$@" >> >> The reason being that "$@" is special in bash. It actually expands to >> the command line quoted as you passed it, with "foo bar" being one >> argument. The issue is with the assignment to a single bash variable >> > > The reason that can not be used in makepkg is the option parsing uses > "shift" and thus clears the value of $@ as it goes.
I thought I'd craft a witty reply but you beat me with a nicely worded one. I happily trimmed the reply chain above to see the failure to read. :P -Dan
