Re: shell scripts with empty arguments and spaces

From: Michael Paoli (michael1cat_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: 21 Jan 2004 19:19:50 -0800

A hint:
"$@" is your friend
sh(1)

Additional hints (some of which reference poster seems to already be aware of):
shift
set
set --
${parameter:+word}
${parameter+word}
parameter=
Quoting (most notably ' and ")

Ulrich Herrmann <uherr@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<opr148ql0bl16y4z@news.online.de>...
> Is
> there no way of handling empty arguments in shell scripts directly?
> Anyone to give me some tips on this?

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