On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 01:13:03 GMT, rumours say that Joal Heagney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
>>><wrapped program> $* >>>----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> And you should change that last line to: >> >> <wrapped program> "$@" >> > >Ah yes, because we want the arguments passed in as seperate words, not >as a whole string. No, this would happen if your last line was <wrapped program> "$*" To summarize, suppose your script is called with the following arguments: <wrapper_script> "File with space.txt" arg2 arg3 Here follow "last lines" and the corresponding sys.argv[1:]: LAST LINE: <wrapped_program> $* SYS.ARGV : ["File", "with", "space.txt", "arg2", "arg3"] LAST LINE: <wrapped_program> "$*" SYS.ARGV : ["File with space.txt arg2 arg3"] LAST LINE: <wrapped_program> "$@" SYS.ARGV : ["File with space.txt", "arg2", "arg3"] For more information, see man 1 bash or man 1 ksh or man 1 sh. Don't know if this applies to *csh family. -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
