On Nov 13, 2003, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> #! /bin/bash
>> export LC_ALL=C
>> exec /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread "$@"
> Note that this will cause problems if you specify multiple files on the
> command line. I found the following construct on Google, which seems to
> work with both multiple files and files with spaces in their names (no
> idea why though).
> #!/bin/bash
> LANG=en_US /opt/Acrobat5/bin/acroread ${1+"$@"}
${1+"$@"} is equivalent to "$@" except in some broken shells that
expand "$@" to "" when $# is zero. I.e., where there shouldn't be any
arguments, they introduce an empty argument instead. I don't know
that this affects any shells that run on GNU/Linux.
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