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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>,
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Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic
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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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Ben Smithurst                 / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
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