Re: Access right question

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> Use a simple wrapper:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> umask 002
> /path/to/real/svn "$@"

Picking some shell nits here:

1) I'd prefix that last line with "exec" and save a slot in the process
   table.
2) I personally don't use "$@" when I am not parsing the argument list.
   That is because "$@" actually changes the internal quoting of the arg
   list and $* does not.

Consider the following:

% cat ./foosh
#!/bin/sh

for F in "$*"; do
        echo "$F"
done

for F in "$@"; do
        echo "$F"
done
% ./foosh one two "three four"
one two three four
one
two
three four

Because our wrapper is not itself attempting to make sense of the
argument list, it should pass on the user's instructions about what the
arguments are to svn completely unmolested.

This might be important if people are keeping filenames with embedded
spaces or shell metacharacters under version control with Subversion.

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