Re: [pacman-dev] bash argument passing help

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee wrote:

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Dan McGee wrote:

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Note how in pass two, foo and bar are no longer in the one line.   Of course, passing ./two.sh "$@" works, but the argument parsing in makepkg clears that, hence the need to save it to ARGLIST.

It's worth noting that the following works two:

./two.sh "$@"

The reason being that "$@" is special in bash. It actually expands to the command line quoted as you passed it, with "foo bar" being one argument. The issue is with the assignment to a single bash variable

The reason that can not be used in makepkg is the option parsing uses "shift" and thus clears the value of $@ as it goes.

I thought I'd craft a witty reply but you beat me with a nicely worded one. I happily trimmed the reply chain above to see the failure to read. :P

Whoops. I didn't see it mentioned. I did, however, want to point out the fact that "$@" is special. It's not just a variable in quotes. It's crazy like that