Re: Error: *: Parameter not set

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/29/05 

Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:51:10 -0400

On 2005-06-29, DozyRosy wrote:
> I have a shell script which acts as a wrapper to another script and I
> want to propagate all the passed parameters through to the inner script
> (even if there are none). But if I use $* or $@ and there are no
> parameters passed in the I get an error and the script terminates. How
> do I avoid this?

     Without seeing your script, it can be no more than a wild guess.

     This is probably not the cause of the problem, but you should use
     "$@", not $@. 

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    Chris F.A. Johnson                     <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2005, Apress
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