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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: scarabeus@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] office-ext.eclass
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:49:00
Message-Id: 20110830094955.379b4093@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] office-ext.eclass by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:26:16 +0200
2 Tomáš Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >> # @FUNCTION: office-ext_remove_extension
5 > >> [...]
6 > >> ${UNOPKG_BINARY} remove --shared "${ext}" \
7 > >
8 > > Not sure what unopkg accepts, but I guess you want to pass several
9 > > arguments here. So ${ext} shouldn't be quoted.
10 > >
11 > > And why is the intermediate variable ext needed here, in the first
12 > > place? You could use "$@" directly (this time, with the quotes).
13 > >
14 > Nah i want to give it just one argument, the name of the extension
15 > and it can contain spaces -> $@.
16
17 Then you are supposed to use "${1}", and caller is supposed to quote
18 that name.
19
20 Running things like 'foo bar baz' is a no go. If the file was named
21 'bar baz' instead, it'd fail because of whitespace collapsing. So,
22 the only allowed solution is 'foo "bar baz"', and ${1}.
23
24 > For what is worth i prefer to use local variables just because it is
25 > easier if I decide to change what i want to parse from $@ to
26 > something else.
27
28 BTW You can go with exts=( "${@}" ) as well, to support multiple exts.
29
30 --
31 Best regards,
32 Michał Górny

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