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Re: Assignment of $* to a var removes spaces on unset IFS.

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  Re: Assignment of $* to a var removes spaces on unset IFS. Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> - 2018-08-14 07:24 +0700

#14475 — Re: Assignment of $* to a var removes spaces on unset IFS.

    Date:        Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:51:08 -0400
    From:        Bize Ma <binaryzebra@gmail.com>
    Message-ID:  <CAFra36g+5888jkADfSzEnP2ggKgN4XadFk91gHgnWUJ5BxNWWw@mail.gmail.com>

  | Bash since 4.3 fails to follow what the documentation describes as that on
  | an assignment values do not undergo splitting or globing.

This is already fixed.

What's more, reporting bugs in bash 4.3 is just a waste of everyone's time.
Upgrade to (at least) the current released version, and use that instead.

kre

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