commit 0a046396cb50b910b505fbd85552af508f983fd8
from: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
date: Tue Jul 12 07:53:53 2022 UTC

portable: regress: fix sed parsing

When making sed's command-line flags portable, don't split on $@ before
parsing it, as this won't preserve the original string which needs
passing to sed unmodified if it's never had to be changed.

commit - c1233c7fd72e99312b77804f7decb19236efd914
commit + 0a046396cb50b910b505fbd85552af508f983fd8
blob - 2acacf973e376511c10a697abac71b65f8c16ba2
blob + 2a5f020704ba0327fb8f98a3b3fd6d02b1c49edc
--- regress/cmdline/common.sh
+++ regress/cmdline/common.sh
@@ -72,10 +72,7 @@ sed()
 	# Therefore, scan the argument list and remove "-i ''", replacing it
 	# with just "-i".
 
-	original_cmd="$@"
 	[ "$PLATFORM" = "linux" ] && {
-		set -- "$@"
-
 		for w in "$@"
 		do
 			[ "$w" = "-i" ] && {
@@ -87,12 +84,12 @@ sed()
 				# Move past -i and ''
 				shift 2
 
-				command "$SEDCMD" -i $@
+				command "$SEDCMD" -i "$@"
 				return
 			}
 		done
 	}
-	command "$SEDCMD" $original_cmd
+	command "$SEDCMD" "$@"
 }