Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:18:02AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
>> > Safer in a way that $@ doesn't care about IFS or in what way?
>> > -- Guido
>>
>> I was more thinking about the proper quoting.
>>
>> --buildsourceroot "My Tempdir"
>> --debsign-k "Mr Foo"
>> ...
>>
>> I'm curious, how would there be problem with the IFS?
>
> Well maybe we're talking about the same: $* expands to a single word
> separated by the first character of the IFS variable while $@ expands to
> separate words. Did you see any problems with the way it's done at the
> moment?
I use --buildresult .... and that wasn't possible with current "$*"
> I vaguely remember using $@ at first but --debbuildops expecting
> a single word. So I'd rather keep the existing syntax (except you have a
> case where that fails).
Those are all covered by "$@" whcih properly preserves the words that
the user supplied. Taking your example, I believe this is correct with
"$@":
git-pbuilder "all the debbuildops options here" \
--buildsourceroot "My Tempdir" \
--debsign-k "Mr Foo"
Jari
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