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 | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)