At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:43:48 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Angus Lees wrote:
> > as in: for i in "$@"; do ...; done
> > or: exec cmd "$@"
>
> Yup. But do you know the magic incantation that
> you have to perform when passing on "$@" to subshells
> that I referred to in my mail? (only needed for non-Bash
> bourne compatibles)
as far as i can tell, "$@" should do the Right Thing on all POSIX
shells.
for ancient shells, the usual magic incantation is ${1+"$@"}. this is
to make sure it expands to nothing (as in, not even "") when there are
no arguments. "$@" on POSIX shells should do that by itself.
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