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Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/browser/emacs-overlay/eclass/xemacs-elisp-common.eclass |
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> You use $* and $@ here which are the same when unquoted. They should |
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> probably be quoted and that means that all instances would become the four |
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> characters "$@". |
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Yeah, that's definitely how to pass thru parameters in function calls. |
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<greybot> The difference between $@ and $*: without double quotes, none at |
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all: both equal $1 $2 .... With double quotes, "$@" is "$1" "$2" ..., |
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while "$*" is "$1c$2c..." (where c is the first character of $IFS). You |
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almost always want "$@". |
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So using "$*" maps to one string parameter. If you're calling a shell |
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function you might not notice the difference (until you use a parameter |
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with a space) using plain $* since the shell splits parameters to commands |
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on characters in IFS. The point is, to deal with spaces in strings you need |
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to use "$@". |
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#bash is your friend (although some of the ops are way too grumpy ;) |
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