Re: Question on $IFS related differences (Was: Question on $@ vs $@$@)

Oğuz <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:05:10 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
Message-ID <CAH7i3Lq9xQnnkAO7cd5XZEsV4jY+Va6uWqjw3yaMi=A3mdh83g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 4:19 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> wrote:
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It boils down to this:

  f(){ echo $#;}; set "" "" ""; IFS=x; f $*

bash, NetBSD and FreeBSD sh, and ksh88 all agree and print 2. pdksh
prints 3 but mksh and oksh print 1. dash, ksh93, yash, and zsh print
0.