| On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
| : | eval set $list
| : | while test $# -gt 0; do
| : | echo $1
| : | shift
| : | done
| :
| : Excellent, thanks! I think this is the best means to handle the list
| : here.
|
| The most elegant solution I found (can't give it a rest already! ;) is:
|
| eval set $list
| for elt in "$@"; do
| echo $elt
| done
|
| So there. Now you won't get any more suggestions from me :)
I agree, this is perfect. Now the question is, do we want to pollute
autoconf.sh, a maintainer tool, with portability issues? If yes, we
need to
eval set dummy $list
shift
for elt in "$@"; do
echo $elt
done
to be sure that if $list comes with `-e' first, set won't understand
it.
If we expect a good shell, then
eval set -- $list
for elt in "$@"; do
echo $elt
done
is fine.
Akim
