Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:24:49 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic Message-ID: <20000816212449.D18766@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20000816194013.A254@parish> References: <3998935A.720FC3BB@wiegand.org> <20000815103154.B3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org> <20000815082913.B1694@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000816194013.A254@parish>
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Mark Ovens wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> ( emacsclient $* || emacs $* ) > /dev/console 2>&1
"$@" (with the quotes) is safer than $* since it does the right thing
with spaces and so on in arguments. Out of $*, "$*", $@ and "$@", the
last one is the only one to get it right in all cases. Try it yourself
with a simple program which just does
for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
printf("argv[%d] = %s\n", i, argv[i]);
--
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