Re: Documentation for a="$@"

2018-05-19 Thread Chet Ramey
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. The key

Documentation for a="$@"

2018-05-19 Thread Ilkka Virta
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,