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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Bourne shell - $* and quoting
Message-ID: <3256@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 17:58:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.3256
Posted: Fri Aug 22 17:58:08 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Aug-86 05:07:30 EDT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <632@mips.UUCP> dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
[Nice explanation of the uses of $* "$*" and "$@".]

As the poster of the $* version of the "not" function, I applaud
attempts to improve it.  I used $* because I have gotten tired of
trying to get the shell to do the right thing in these contexts.
The "getopt" utility never could be made to work entirely correctly,
which helps explain why "getopts" is buil into the SVR3 shell.