Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Linda Walsh wrote:
>> The manpages for "my" bash's (3.1.11 on Linux and 3.1.17 on cygwin/i686),
>> under Parameter Expansion, say:
>>
>>
>> ${!prefix*}
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Expands to the names of variables whose names begin with prefix,
>> separated by the first character of the IFS special variable.
>>
>> [snip]
>> output:
>> * = UID USER # (line 1)
>> @ = UID USER # (line 2)
>> "*" = UID<USER # (line 3)
>> "@" = UID USER # (line 4)
>> ---
>>
>> QUESTIONS continued...
>> - If the two forms are supposed to be identical, why aren't lines
>> 3 & 4 the same?
>> - Why do the quotes in line 3 make for different output than in line
>> Why aren't the 4 lines identical?
>
> I would assume that this works the same as other uses of * and @; if you
> quote them, * expands to a single Word, while @ expands to a Word for
> each logical element (so that any spaces in each element are preserved).
> Similar to how if your argv is 'foo' 'bar none', "$*" gives the single
> Word 'foo bar none' and "$@" gives { 'foo', 'bar none' }.
Matthew is correct; that is how they work.
Chet
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