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David 'Digit' Turner authored
This patch allows all our development scripts, as well as ndk-gdb to work well when parameters containing spaces are used. The $@ shell variable is very special because it will expand differently if inside a quoted string. What this means is that, while $@ normally corresponds to the list of all parameters to a function or script, we have: $@ -> expands to a single string "$@" -> expands to a series of strings This is important when using them as parameters to other commands for example consider: # Simple function to dump all parameters, one per line. dump () { for ITEM; do echo "$ITEM" done } dump1 () { # this will always print a single line dump $@ } dump2 () { # this will print one line per item dump "$@" } dump1 aaa bbb ccc # prints "aaa bbb ccc" on a single line dump2 aaa bbb ccc # prints three lines: "aaa", "bbb" and "ccc" Generally speaking, one should always use "$@" except in very rare cases (e.g. when called from an eval command). Change-Id: I87ec2a7b078cbe463f0ec0257ecad8fd38835b2e
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