Lawrence Velázquez wrote in <972ac206-a601-4337-8dfc-77bbaef22...@app.fastmail.com>: |On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, at 10:08 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> One hopefully last thing in this regard for me, ... |This easily obfuscates the structure of the "$@" expansion. You'd |be better off with something like this, which prints each positional
No, i am not. .. |Correct. Since you're using $* unquoted in a context where field |splitting is performed, the shell does not expand it to a single |field. .. |POSIX.1-2024 says [2]: | | * | Expands to the positional parameters, starting from | one, initially producing one field for each positional | parameter that is set. When the expansion occurs Thanks for the quote. *Yes*, i admit i did not reread the standard text before starting to implement word splitting for the little MUA i maintain. | in a context where field splitting will be performed, | any empty fields may be discarded and each of the | non-empty fields shall be further split as described | in 2.6.5 Field Splitting. When the expansion occurs | in a context where field splitting will not be | performed, the initial fields shall be joined to | form a single field with the value of each parameter | separated by the first character of the IFS variable | if IFS contains at least one character, or separated | by a <space> if IFS is unset, or with no separation | if IFS is set to a null string. Yes, and $* we yet always space separated. That was a bug. ... --End of <972ac206-a601-4337-8dfc-77bbaef22...@app.fastmail.com> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
