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Re: Passing parameters between noninteractive shells



Bart Schaefer wrote:
> And, only in zsh and only with shwordsplit not set,
> 
>     $*  == "$@"

That's not quite true.  Elision of zero-length arguments is not
controlled by shwordsplit.

% set -- a '' c
% print -l $*
a
c
% print -l "$@"
a

c

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