Re: array with newlines preserved as literal text

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:17 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Maybe just obsolete culture.

You can't be that much older than me. :-D

> I learned that the tail was switches
> followed by arguments.

Ah, "switches".  DOS background instead of UNIX, I wager.

> > RTM?
> God no!

You could at least look up "preexec" in the index ...

> > Preexec gets three strings in $@.
>
> Or more than three:

No, just three.  If it looks like more, that's an artifact of the way
you're printing it.