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Re: Stupid shebang tricks & env -



* Wesley J. Landaker [Thu, 12 May 2005 20:41:17 -0600]:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:18, Adeodato Simó wrote:

> >   Uhm, nice (one fork less), but then you can "quote arguments" (and
> >   "$*" won't help here).

> But "$@" will.

  No, sorry, it won't (I tested this stuff). At least in my system, the
  kernel will pass, for a she-bang like:

    #!/foo bar "baz quux"

  the string 'bar "baz quux"' as $1. To break that into parts, you need
  exactly "$*".


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