Re: More fun with IFS

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com> writes:
>
> > > var=${a[*]}   ... one   two three   four  # bad
> >
> >    Looks good to me. It expands to multiple words, just as an unquoted
> >    $* would do.
>
> But no field splitting is performed on the expansion, so why are the
> colons lost?

   How is it printed if it is not expanded?

   The expansion is done when it is printed.

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