Re: More fun with IFS

[Dan Douglas]

On Friday, March 01, 2013 01:06:27 PM Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hrm, but the docs, both, specifically say that (unquoted) $@ behaves
> like $* except in the face of no arguments, so I cannot do that.
> 
> But thanks for the feedback. My reading differed, but you have a
> point, and the others can be kept as-is.
> 

I think the root of the problem is trying to force unquoted $@ to be like $* 
instead of the other way around. That's how bash (if not for the bug) and 
ksh93 manage to do this while remaining consistent with the spec.
-- 
Dan Douglas