On 6/23/17 10:35 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:39:45 -0400 > From: Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> > Message-ID: <20170623153945.ga4...@eeg.ccf.org> > > | That's what I always thought too, but if commonly used shells like > | dash can't even agree on this, then I simply upgrade my response level > | from "bad practice" to "completely wrong, don't ever do this" when > | someone uses unquoted $* or $@. > > As Chet said in an earlier response, unquoted expansions are more often > bugs than not - but not always. Anything that you attempt to apply as a > "one rule to govern them all" is going to be inappropriate sometimes.
In the vast majority of cases, people really desire the effects of "$@" and should just use that. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/