Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20250315224145.YPWRnxq7@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 |Robert Elz wrote in
 | <8711.1742074...@jacaranda.noi.kre.to>:
 ...
 |  * Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one,
 |    initially producing one field for each positional parameter that
 |    is set. When the expansion occurs in a context where field
 |    splitting will be performed, any empty fields may be discarded
 |    and each of the non-empty fields shall be further split as
 |    described in Section 2.6.5.
 |
 |By the very meaning of this the fields are split individually,
 |*first*.  This is exactly what i do.

And further, i have zero idea how shells come to the result that
they do if they do *not* split the fields individually.  But if
they do, how comes that additional field.

--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
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|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
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