At Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:57:08 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > At Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:03:38 +1100, > Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:53 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Doesn't space-delimiting with some random recipe of backslashes work? > > > I seem to remember it used to work. > > > > Yeah looks like that works. Taking > > pdebuild --debbuildopts -a\ -b > > > instead of the documented ("space-delimited") > > pdebuild --debbuildopts -a -b > > But this isn't space-delimiting. Your shell is going to eat the space. > > > pdebuild --debbuildopts "-a -b" > > is the right way (depends on your shell, of course). > > > > > > The --debbuildopts entry in the pdebuild man page needs to be changed if > > this is to be considered the correct solution. >
So, what's a fool-proof way of putting this together? you want something that doesn't confuse you. Shell needs spaces to be escaped; so, an example of 'space-delimited' might have helped here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org