Re: feeding a script from standard input

Mike Castle <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:30:16 -0800

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:34:17PM -0800, Jeffrey Holle wrote:
> Thanks for this, works without the quotes!


Better to use "$@".

Otherwise if you do something like  *.foo and any of those names has spaces
in it, it would fail.  Only "$@" will get that case right.

Even the people who designed that feature call it magic.

mrc
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