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  Re: Documentation for a="$@" Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-05-19 21:58 -0400

#14112 — Re: Documentation for a="$@"

On 5/19/18 3:40 PM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> In Bash, using "$@" in an assignment, (as in  a="$@" ) concatenates the
> positional parameters to single string, joined with spaces. Somewhat
> similarly to what "$*" does, except that $* uses the first letter of IFS,
> but $@ always uses a space.

The key is word splitting, not assignment in particular.  The shell uses
spaces to separate the positional parameters if the word is not going to
be split. I will add somethng to describe that.

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