Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
Whereas the "$@" form would produce
texmfstart.rb "--option=hi there"
This second form is what you want, no?
Ah, I see. (is that bash-only?)
It was hard to find a machine not running bash, a measure of the success of free software. But I eventually found a nearby Solaris machine running 'sh' (couldn't tell which version), but it's man entry says the same:
if $@ is within a pair of double quotes, the positional parameters are substituted and quoted, separated by unquoted spaces ("$1""$2" ... )
coincidentaly i read this in the bash manual today but i was puzzled by it not being ("$1" "$2" ... ) # separated by spaces
So I think it's safe, and increases robustness, to change $@ -> "$@" in all the stub scripts.
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