From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29715 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: updating context on Ubuntu 6.06 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:01:56 +0200 Message-ID: <44C7D844.700@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153947733 30113 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 21:02:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 26 23:02:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5qW5-00038D-TT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:02:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C991FDEF; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:02:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12232-03-3; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692A31FDEA; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:02:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664F21FDEA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:01:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12232-03-2 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D4781FDD4 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 29013 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:01:58 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29715 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >>> Whereas the "$@" form would produce >>> >>> texmfstart.rb "--option=hi there" >>> >>> This second form is what you want, no? >>> >> Ah, I see. (is that bash-only?) >> > > It was hard to find a machine not running bash, a measure of the > success of free software. But I eventually found a nearby Solaris > machine running 'sh' (couldn't tell which version), but it's man entry > says the same: > > if $@ is within a pair of double quotes, the positional > parameters are substituted and quoted, separated by unquoted > spaces ("$1""$2" ... ) > coincidentaly i read this in the bash manual today but i was puzzled by it not being ("$1" "$2" ... ) # separated by spaces > So I think it's safe, and increases robustness, to change $@ -> "$@" > in all the stub scripts. > > i didn't follow this thread but i assume that at some point the outcome will be summarized; keep in mind that patched need to work for windows as well (different quoting) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------