Re: bash doesn't act like mksh at all

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Andres Perera wrote:

for i in bash mksh; do
   echo $i:
   $i <<'!'
       set 'a  b' 'c  d'
       quoted="$@"
       unquoted=$@
       echo "$quoted"
       echo "$unquoted"
   !
done

here bash treats unquoted $@ on rhs differently, expanding it like $*:

   Unquoted $@ *is* the same as $*.

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   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
   Author:
   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)