Re: More fun with IFS

[Andreas Schwab]

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com> writes:

> 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?

??? Parameter expansion and field splitting are separate steps of word
expansion.

Andreas.

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