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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: Joke de Buhr <joke@seiken.de>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: zsh portable script
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	"Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:45:18 +0200")
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:01:20 +0200
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Joke de Buhr wrote:
[...]
>   #!/bin/sh
>=20=20=20
>   if [ -z "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then
>       ## searching PATH for zsh executable
>       exec zsh $0 $*

That should rather be
        exec zsh "$0" "$@"

Or even better, as Vicent put it:
       exec zsh -- "$0" ${1+"$@"}

The `--' should be pretty clear. About the ${1+"$@"}, see:
  <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/bourne_args/>

Regards, Frank

=2D-=20
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
                                                  -- RFC 1925

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