Package: dash Version: 0.5.7-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The following typescript shows that a shell variable assignment from "$@" uses "$*" instead, $ dash -c ' IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; aa="$@" ; echo "$aa" ' a b c a:b:c Thanks, Jeffrey Sheinberg -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 4.3.2 ii dpkg 1.16.15 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u4 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org