vc-list-files: avoid use of ${*-*} that fails when /bin/sh is dash

* build-aux/vc-list-files: Simplify ${*-*} to $dir, since we no longer
take more than one file argument, so .  Add quotes, just in case $dir
ever contains a shell meta-character.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5cf1dd3f2ba4122b918f37b04e00496f15c3ad02..b1a8c4823c3b7131e5f941ed4b51cecfe188517e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-04-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       vc-list-files: avoid use of ${*-*} that fails when /bin/sh is dash
+       * build-aux/vc-list-files: Simplify ${*-*} to $dir, since we no longer
+       take more than one file argument, so .  Add quotes, just in case $dir
+       ever contains a shell meta-character.
+
 2008-04-29  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
        Optimize getndelim2 to use block operations when possible.

diff --git a/build-aux/vc-list-files b/build-aux/vc-list-files
index 762d7eeb366487d169d2e513280d6b0893d6985c..02fad61c8932618f8ca33e64a07bb59f21f354e1 100755 (executable)
--- a/build-aux/vc-list-files
+++ b/build-aux/vc-list-files
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # List version-controlled file names.
 
 # Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2008-04-03.17
+scriptversion=2008-04-30.11
 
 # Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ elif test -d CVS; then
          sub(/CVS\/Entries/, "", f);   \
          print f $2;                   \
        }}'\''                          \
-      $(find ${*-*} -name Entries -print) /dev/null' $postprocess
+      $(find "$dir" -name Entries -print) /dev/null' $postprocess
   fi
 else
   echo "$0: Failed to determine type of version control used in `pwd`" 1>&2