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Subject: Re: Expansion of ${!x*} and ${!x@}
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: 2006-11-07 22:43:56
Message-ID: eir27c$mv6$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Linda Walsh wrote:
> The manpages for "my" bash's (3.1.11 on Linux and 3.1.17 on cygwin/i686),
> under Parameter Expansion, say:
>
>
> ${!prefix*}
> ${!prefix@}
> Expands to the names of variables whose names begin with prefix,
> separated by the first character of the IFS special variable.
>
> [snip]
> output:
> * = UID USER # (line 1)
> @ = UID USER # (line 2)
> "*" = UID<USER # (line 3)
> "@" = UID USER # (line 4)
> ---
>
> QUESTIONS continued...
> - If the two forms are supposed to be identical, why aren't lines
> 3 & 4 the same?
> - Why do the quotes in line 3 make for different output than in line
> Why aren't the 4 lines identical?
I would assume that this works the same as other uses of * and @; if you
quote them, * expands to a single Word, while @ expands to a Word for
each logical element (so that any spaces in each element are preserved).
Similar to how if your argv is 'foo' 'bar none', "$*" gives the single
Word 'foo bar none' and "$@" gives { 'foo', 'bar none' }.
IOW this looks like the doc maybe should mention this and fails to do so.
--
Matthew
"Try to bring it back in one piece this time." -- Q (MI6)
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