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From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: bug in /bin/sh
Keywords: functions, quotes
Message-ID: <1989May25.174406.6046@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 25 May 89 21:44:05 GMT
References: <883@cetia4.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 16

According to chris@cetia4.UUCP (Christian Bertin):
>First, I apologized if this is an ancient bug. There is a problem in the
>argument passing when shell functions are used: The expansion of $* turns
>quoted strings into multiple arguments.

>       $ mail() /usr/bin/mailx $*

Feature alert!  That's the way $* is supposed to work.
What you probably want is:

	$ mail() /usr/bin/mailx ${1+"$@"}

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