On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <ch...@cfajohnson.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Andres Perera wrote: > >> for i in bash mksh; do >> echo $i: >> $i <<'!' >> set 'a b' 'c d' >> quoted="$@" >> unquoted=$@ >> echo "$quoted" >> echo "$unquoted" >> ! >> done >> >> here bash treats unquoted $@ on rhs differently, expanding it like $*: > > Unquoted $@ *is* the same as $*.
you're not reading unquoted assignments should not apply IFS to $@ > > -- > Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> > Author: > Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) > Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) >
