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Old 01-14-2008
whats the difference between $* and $@
Hi,

whats the difference between $* and $@ in command line arguments to a shell scripts
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Old 01-14-2008
$* = all the arguments are double quoted. If a script receives 2 arguments, $* is equivalent to $1 $2

$@ All the arguments are individually double quoted,If a script receives 2 arguments, $@ is equivalent to $1 $2
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Old 01-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by invinzin21
$* = all the arguments are double quoted. If a script receives 2 arguments, $* is equivalent to $1 $2

$@ All the arguments are individually double quoted,If a script receives 2 arguments, $@ is equivalent to $1 $2
in both cases
Quote:
If a script receives 2 arguments, $*/$@ is equivalent to $1 $2
cat scr


for i in $@
do
echo "@ $i"
done
for j in $*
do
echo "* $j"
done




./scr a b c "d e"
@ a
@ b
@ c
@ d
@ e
* a
* b
* c
* d
* e

can we see some diff through this kind of script ???
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Old 01-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by pbsrinivas
Hi,

whats the difference between $* and $@ in command line arguments to a shell scripts
Look into man sh under the section 'Special Parameters'
Code:
       *      Expands  to the positional parameters, starting from one.  When
              the expansion occurs within double quotes, it expands to a sin-
              gle  word  with  the  value  of each parameter separated by the
              first character of the IFS special variable.  That is, "$*"  is
              equivalent  to  "$1c$2c...",  where c is the first character of
              the value of the IFS variable.  If IFS is unset, the parameters
              are  separated  by  spaces.  If IFS is null, the parameters are
              joined without intervening separators.
       @      Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one.   When
              the  expansion  occurs  within  double  quotes,  each parameter
              expands to a separate word.  That is,  "$@"  is  equivalent  to
              "$1"  "$2"  ...   When there are no positional parameters, "$@"
              and $@ expand to nothing (i.e., they are removed).

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