On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 14:00 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV writes ("Re: dash bug which is affecting release goal"):
> > Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > > echo() { /bin/echo "$@" }
> >
> > echo() { /bin/echo ${1+"$@"}; }
> >
> > I believe you mean.
>
> Why ?!
Because stand-alone $@ is undefined when used in this case. By using ${1
+"$@"}, it is ensured that $@ always starts with $1.
What a load of POSIX.
William
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