On 5/19/18 3:40 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> In Bash, using "$@" in an assignment, (as inĀ a="$@" ) concatenates the
> positional parameters to single string, joined with spaces. Somewhat
> similarly to what "$*" does, except that $* uses the first letter of IFS,
> but $@ always uses a space.
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In Bash, using "$@" 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.
However, I can't see this documented in the manual,