Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> posted 200904050401.19301.vap...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:01:18 -0400:
> what you've read/quoted matters at the expansion step, but that isnt > what i'm talking about. i'm pointing out that the expansion is lost by > assigning through the variable. thus the same behavior of the whole > function is as if "$*" is used. Makes sense now that your short form is expanded to explain the step I missed. I /knew/ I must be missing the obvious as the simplest way to take what you wrote was just /too/ obvious. Thanks. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
