Re: "$@" vs. nounset

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 29 June 2009 04:54:52 Yang Zhang wrote:
> Hi, I like using nounset for stricter scripts, but an annoyance is that
> anytime I use "$@" and it's empty, I get an error, when (to me,
> cognitively) it is not "unset" (as in someone *forgot* to set it), it's
> just an empty, which is a common case (IIRC, in bash, variables set to
> empty arrays and unset variables are the same).
>
> As a result I'm forced to use "${@:-}" or something like that everywhere
> I use "$@" (which is really everywhere).  Is there any other way around
> this?  Any way to get a more selective nounset?  Thanks in advance.

if you search the archives, i think the previous discussion on this topic said 
bash-4's behavior needed to change here

does something like this at the top of the script work ?
[ $# -eq 0 ] && set --
-mike

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