Re: Markup in mail messages
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.
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