On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, David Brownlee wrote: > Index: src/distrib/common/runlist.sh [...] > +( while [ "X$1" != "X" ]; do > + cat $1 > + shift > +done ) | awk -f ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/distrib/common/list2sh.awk | ${SHELLCMD}
Why is the while loop necessary? Why not just use awk -f .../list2sh.awk "$@" As far as I can tell, the only difference between the while loop an my suggestion is in the behaviour when there are no args (which might never happen, or which can be handled by an additional test), or the behaviour when one of the args is an empty string (which I hope never happens). --apb (Alan Barrett)