Op 27-09-17 om 14:44 schreef Greg Wooledge: > I'm just going to chalk this up as yet another example of unquoted $* > or $@ being Completely Wrong.
Nonsense. This is a bug in bash and it should be fixed, not excused. Quoting expansions should never be necessary for assignments. This strange behaviour with assignments is unique to bash. All other shells act identically and correctly. - M.