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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by a3n on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:15PM (#22029430)
Related, the longer your shell script gets, the greater potential for accumulated foot-guns. When you finally do the rewrite, will you be bug-compatible? And once discovered, will you be confident on which side the bug lies?
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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by blaser-waffle on Monday January 13, 2020 @09:03AM (#22034511)
An aside: when did the phrase "foot-guns" become a thing.

Cuz I've never heard it until this thread, where it pops up multiple times. Great phrase but went 0-60 in usage.

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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by mrguyorama on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:39AM (#22035951)
I'm pretty sure it's at least as old as usenet and mail lists
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