BASH alias $1 $2 ... query

Loïc Grenié loic.grenie at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 09:58:02 UTC 2009


2009/4/19 dave selby <dave6502 at googlemail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing an svn alias that does some stuff before it svn's

     Technically this is not an alias but a wrapper.

> #!/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

    Yes: svn "$@"


       Hope this helps,

           Loïc




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