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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by DonHopkins on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:23AM (#22032270)
But bash IS evil.
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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by cookiecaper on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:34PM (#22040488)
I mostly agree, but it's sometimes a necessary evil. There's a reason I praised shell languages in general rather than bash specifically; fish shell, for instance, is much more comfortable.
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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by cpach on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:55AM (#22033383)
Why?
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Re:Bash $* and $@ (2017) by pmarreck on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:17PM (#22110375)
In most languages, you don't need to know/understand this much minutiae about string handling; as an example, I've been doing open source dev for years now in Bash and I never knew the distinction OP posted.
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