Re: [PLUG] Weird shell script bug

Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> · Tue, 5 Nov 2019 15:30:25 -0500

Update -- clearly something's weird with how the parameters are being
parsed. I ended up giving up trying to do it as a shell script and
rewrote it in Perl:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
my @args = split / /, @ARGV[1];
my $cmd = $args[0];
exec $cmd @args;

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 02:23:24PM -0500, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've got a weird shell script error that I hope someone can help me
> figure out. I can go into more detail about why I'm trying to do this,
> but afaict this is xcthe basic problem:
> 
> I've got a shell script that's setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then
> running
> 
>   exec /bin/sh $*
> 
> $* is set to "-c ../build/foo.exe bar baz".
> 
> When foo.exe runs it thinks argv==1 and it doesn't see any of the
> other parameters, and so it aborts.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Walt
> 

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