Yang Zhang <yanghates...@gmail.com> writes: > As a result I'm forced to use "${@:-}" or something like that
The correct idiom is ${1+"$@"}, which also works around the old Bourne shell bug that causes "$@" to expand to a single empty argument when there are no positional arguments. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."