On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:23:44PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Okt 07 2019, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > > x=(1 2 3 4 5 -n '/*' 'hello world') > > for z in "${x[@]}"; do > > printf %s "$z" > > done > > echo > > (IFS=; printf '%s\n' "${x[*]}")
Or avoid the fork(): printf %s "${x[@]}" echo I preserved the original poster's loop, because it's probably another !b9 question.