On Feb 24, 2010, at 02:18 , Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
#! /bin/sh ./prog --RTS ${1+"$@"}
The longer specification above should work with whatever /bin/sh is around, whether it's Solaris /sbin/sh, FreeBSD's sh, general Linux bash, Debian/Ubuntu dash, etc.
Are you referring to some Solaris shell bug?
Under POSIX these constructs seem to be equivalent. "If there are no positional parameters, the expansion of '@' shall generate zero fields, even when '@' is double-quoted."
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