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From: danl@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.r.levy)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: bug in /bin/sh
Summary: $@
Keywords: functions, quotes
Message-ID: <1011@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 23:11:44 GMT
References: <883@cetia4.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 21

< 			$ mail() /usr/bin/mailx $*
< 			$ mail -s "a b c d e f" chris
< 
< the quoted string has become multiple arguments to 'mailx', so ...
< I get
< 
< 			To: b c d e f chris
< 			Subject: a
< 
< When I [wanted]
< 
< 			To: chris
< 			Subject: a b c d e f

Use "$@" [sic, including the double quotes] instead of $*.  $* re-formats the
arguments into individual tokens.
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