Re: elinks support in the VIM Netrw plug-in

Charlie Kester <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.elinks.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Thomas Adam <[email protected]> [2008-07-29 22:20:28 +0100]:

>2008/7/29 Ethan Mallove <[email protected]>:
>> I posted a tip on getting (e)links browser support for the
>> VIM Netrw plug-in (see below). Just thought I'd post it here
>> on the off-chance that someone here might either find it
>> useful or have suggestions for improving it.
>
>I do, yes:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>tempfile=`echo $* | awk '{print $1}'`
>url=`echo $* | awk '{print $2}'`
>elinks -dump $url > $tempfile
>
>
>1.  You mean "$@" over $*.

Am I missing something?  Why parse the parameters with awk in the first
place?  The shell already has variables for each of the positional
parameters, so I don't see why we need awk to get at them. 

I.e, why not simply do the following:

#!/bin/sh 
elinks -dump $2 > $1

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