Re: Markup in mail messages

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:43:49PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >    https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you.  It converts
> >    (relatively) sane HTML into Markdown.
> > 
> >    I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it:
> > 
> >      #!/bin/sh
> >      #<html2mkd: convert reasonable HTML to Markdown
> >      exec /usr/bin/env python $HOME/lib/html2text.py ${1+"$@"}
> >      exit 1
> 
> I am puzzled by this wrapper. I expect that "$@" is enough here and namely
> {1+"$@"} is redundant. Am I wrong?

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/WrapperScript

Short version: "$@" is good enough if your /bin/sh isn't museum-era.
${1+"$@"} works around a bug in some very old shells.