Re: ITP: tsocks -- transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:19:42PM +0200, Tamas SZERB wrote:
> alabama:~$ cat tsocks
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> export LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD /usr/lib/libtsocks.so"
> 
> exec $*
> #EOF

This is a far too common mistake.  Using exec $* will break arguments
that contain embedded spaces.  Use
 exec ${1+"$@"}
to call another program with the same arguments that your script got.
(The 1+ construction is there to do the right thing if there are no
arguments at all.  It's not needed in bash.  I don't know about other
shells.)

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