"Chris F.A. Johnson" <ch...@cfajohnson.com> writes:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <ch...@cfajohnson.com> writes:
>>
>>>> var=${a[*]} ... one two three four # bad
>>>
>>> Looks good to me. It expands to multiple words, just as an unquoted
>>> $* would do.
>>
>> But no field splitting is performed on the expansion, so why are the
>> colons lost?
>
> How is it printed if it is not expanded?
??? Parameter expansion and field splitting are separate steps of word
expansion.
Andreas.
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