[4999] in SIPB bug reports
mosaic outputs cruft to stdout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Fri Oct 28 17:11:45 1994
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 17:10:42 +0500
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@MIT.EDU>
To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: jhawk@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, yoav@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: yandros@MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 28 Oct 1994 04:11:48 +0500 <9410280811.AA10984@infocalypse.MIT.EDU>
Allegedly, "$@" is *not* the same as simply quoting the whole string
of arguments. According to man sh under solaris (though I recall the
same text from BSD...)
Inside a pair of double quote marks (""), parameter and com-
mand substitution occurs and the shell quotes the results to
avoid blank interpretation and file name generation. If $ *
is within a pair of double quotes, the positional parameters
are substituted and quoted, separated by quoted spaces ("$1
> $2 ..."); however, if $@ is within a pair of double quotes,
> the positional parameters are substituted and quoted,
> separated by unquoted spaces ("$1" "$2" ... ). \ quotes the
characters \, `, , and $. The pair \newline is removed
before parameter and command substitution. If a backslash
precedes characters other than \, `, , $, and newline, then
the backslash itself is quoted by the shell.
