Re: Question on $@ vs $@$@

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/23/24 5:47 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:

>   If IFS has a value other than the default, then sequences of the
>   whitespace characters space, tab, and newline are ignored at the
>   beginning and end of the word, as long as the whitespace
>   character is in the value of IFS (an IFS  whitespace  charac‐
>   ter).
>
> So IFS whitespace only if part of $IFS.
>
>   Any  character in IFS that is not IFS whitespace, along
>   with any adjacent IFS whitespace characters, delimits a field.
>
> So this "adjacent" even if *not* part of $IFS.

I am genuinely curious how you concluded this, given the definition you
previously quoted.

>   A sequence of IFS whitespace characters is also treated as
>   a delimiter.
>
> So this means that *regardless* of whatever $IFS is, the three IFS
> whitespace characters are $IFS anyway *if* that is set to
> a nin-empty non-default value. 

Nonsense.

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