Re: profile.d [was Re: UMASK 002 or 022?]

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>
>> > exec /bin/ls --color-auto $*
>>=20
>> Close. /bin/ls --color=3Dauto "$@"

> well both will work, yours changes the way the arguments are quoted by
> the shell.  yours is arguably safer.

Actually, $* doesn't work in all cases, consider the difference between

ls

and

ls ""
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