BASH alias $1 $2 ... query

[Nils Kassube]

dave selby wrote:
> I am writing an svn alias that does some stuff before it svn's
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo -e '\n*** SAFE SVN ***\n'
>
> some tidying up  ....
>
> svn $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
>
> It works but '$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9' is clumsy and does not
> always work - is there a neater way

Sure.

svn $@

However I don't know why your method doesn't always work. There could be 
at least 2 reasons:

a) There may be more than 9 parameters but you only use the first 9.

b) You didn't quote your parameters. If there are spaces in the original 
parameters you would actually call svn with something wrong. Example: 
You originally call your script with

myscript "first parameter" "second parameter"

The script would call svn with 4 parameters instead of 2:

svn "first" "parameter" "second" "parameter"

Therefore it would be better to use

svn "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8" "$9"

But don't use quoting with $@. If you used

svn "$@"

it would be only one parameter like this:

svn "first parameter second parameter"


Nils