Re: Passing Information To A Function

[Paul Jarc]

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@rogers.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:
>> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@rogers.com> wrote:
>>>         xxx_var=( `eval echo \\${$1[@]}` )
>> Your unquoted [@] could be pathname-expanded to something different.
>
> Under what circumstances is @ exapanded, other than $@ and in array
> expansion?

There's notheng special about "@" here; [] is the special part.  If
"$1" is "foo", and if a file named "${foo@}" exists, then as an
unquoted argument to eval, the above will be expanded as "${foo@}",
which eval will choke on.


paul