Re: extfs audio.in & hp48.in patch

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi kde org>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:19:22PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> [Offtopic:] Can you tell me a situation where you use $*?
> 
i have a few scripts that i just pass a text that might be unquoted as
the last argument(s). in this case echo-ing $* makes sense. nothing i'd
suggest to somebody who doesn't know the quoting rules in and out ...

> >btw, the autoconf manual gives a good overview of shell
> >incompatibilites - for those of you who think one can't overdo
> >quoting.
> 
> Well, I think that it is not easy to do overquoting the wrong way.
>
it can't be wrong per se as long as it is correct, obviously. but
problems arise with certain shells getting confused by deeper quoting
constructs.

> The approach that I like is to quote everything that I consider to be
> a string. This includes arguments to `case'.
> 
otoh, more quotes means more chars to parse, making the code harder to
read for those who _do_ know the rules asleep. :)

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 12:00:02PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 07:57, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > # for i in "you $@ suck"; do echo $i; done
> 
> You choose your examples carefully I see >:-/
> 
yeah. :-)=)
well, actually, i only wanted to test it for myself and nothing better
came to my mind while i stared at the screen of my computer called ugly
(i'm weird, huh? :). later i decided to post it and was too lazy to
change it. :)

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