From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T19:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: script with -e command line option???

On 27.01.2007 20:13, Suresh Unadrad wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> This looks like "ruby" was a shell script that does not properly quote
>> arguments
> 
> Rob Biedenharn wrote:
>> I'd start to suspect that you have "ruby"
>> defined as an alias or something to make the args be evaluated twice.
> 
> Turns out that this was indeed the problem.  When I started using the 
> ruby fltk extensions, I found that I had to replace /usr/bin/ruby with 
> the following script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.3.98
> exec /usr/bin/ruby1.8 $*
> 
> 
> so that's why the arguments were being evaluated twice.
> 
> thanks everyone for your help!


You can easily fix that script with this line which will do proper quoting:

exec /usr/bin/ruby1.8 "$@"

Kind regards

	robert