On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 04:06:03PM +0300, Ilkka Virta wrote: > Unquoted $* seems well-defined in Bash's reference manual: > > ($*) Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the > expansion is not within double quotes, each positional parameter > expands to a separate word.
But not in reality. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-06/msg00283.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-09/msg00058.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-01/msg00035.html Unquoted $* or $@ is just a disaster. Don't do it.
