old shell question

old shell question

[jarausch]

Hi,
sorry for this offtopic question but I know
that there are very knowledgeable people
on this list.

I had problems with the invocation script of
the opera web-browser.
The reason was that when invoked via

opera -remote openURL(...,...)

this script gets the TWO parameters
-remote
and
openURL(...,...)

and concatenates these to a SINGLE
parameter like
'-remote openURL(...,...)'
and passed this to the true opera
binary.

This didn't work ofcourse.

I replaced this with 'pushing' the 
arguments to the script onto an array
and expanded this when calling the true
binary.
Unfortunately ancient shells (like on Sun)
don't have arrays.
Does anybody know a means to achieve what
I intend such that it's running on ancient
shells?

Many thanks,

Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: old shell question

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:05:52PM +0200, jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
wrote:
> Hi, sorry for this offtopic question but I know that there are very
> knowledgeable people on this list.
> 
> I had problems with the invocation script of the opera web-browser.
> The reason was that when invoked via
> 
> opera -remote openURL(...,...)
> 
> this script gets the TWO parameters -remote and openURL(...,...)
> 
> and concatenates these to a SINGLE parameter like '-remote
> openURL(...,...)' and passed this to the true opera binary.

Have a look at the manual for the SH_WORD_SPLIT option.  This is
probably also in the FAQ.

-Dom