From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55857 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: No Gnus feature request: simpler file structure for synching Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:58:50 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073602766 19969 80.91.224.253 (8 Jan 2004 22:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4397@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 08 23:59:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aej7Z-0007XO-00 for ; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 23:59:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Aej7T-0008KB-00; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:59:15 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Aej7O-0008K6-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 16:59:10 -0600 Original-Received: from harris.CNS.CWRU.Edu (harris.CNS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.104.63]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087E23A0034 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:59:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.smtp-a.cwru.edu by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) id <0HR700A0110PAQ@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:59:08 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from multivac.cwru.edu (multivac.ITS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.114.26]) by smtp-a.cwru.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HR7007ZE1632E@smtp-a.cwru.edu> for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:58:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 31080 invoked by uid 500); Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:59:13 +0000 In-reply-to: Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Lines: 16 Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55857 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55857 "Steven E. Harris" wrote: > Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes: >>> $CMD -r $* $REMOTE/home/ . >> ^^ better use "$@" (including the quotes) > > Why is one preferable to the other in this case? I read the Bash man > page on $* and $@ and can't really see how one should choose. If any of the arguments contain whitespace, then $* or $@, unquoted, will re-split all the arguments, which is probably not what you want. "$*", quoted, gives you one word containing all the arguments, separated by spaces - also probably not what you want. "$@", quoted, gives you each argument exactly as-is, in its own word. paul