On 5/19/18 3:40 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> In Bash, using "$@" in an assignment, (as in a="$@" ) concatenates the
> positional parameters to single string, joined with spaces. Somewhat
> similarly to what "$*" does, except that $* uses the first letter of IFS,
> but $@ always uses a space.
The key is word splitting, not assignment in particular. The shell uses
spaces to separate the positional parameters if the word is not going to
be split. I will add somethng to describe that.
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