Bug 71388
| Summary: | Array initialisation using $@ works as $* | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | James Antill <james.antill> |
| Component: | bash | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-09-26 01:56:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
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You forgot to quote $@. |
Description of Problem: When you initialise an array using ARRAY=($@) the variables get expanded as if you had used $*. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bash-2.05a-13 How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run attached script Actual Results: Script prints. 2 3 3 3 3 Expected Results: Script prints. 2 2 3 2 3 Additional Information: Here is the script... #! /bin/bash function f() { A=($@) B=($*) echo $# echo ${#A[@]} echo ${#B[@]} echo ${#A[*]} echo ${#B[*]} } f a "b c"