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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:32:13 -0800
From: Bob McGowan <Robert DOT McGowan AT veritas DOT com>
Organization: VERITAS Software
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To: Dirk Fieldhouse <fieldhouse AT logica DOT com>
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Subject: Re: bash - $@ vs shift inconsistent
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$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(2)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Following is the output of your test cases, using the above version of
bash.  spaces1 uses the "for" loop and "$@", spaces2 uses the "while"
loop with "$1" and "shift":

$ spaces1 "a  b c" "there are 2 tabs:            :" "and a third arg"
a  b c
there are 2 tabs:                :
and a third

$ spaces2 "a  b c" "there are 2 tabs:            :" "and a third arg"
a  b c
there are 2 tabs:                :
and a third

I cut and pasted the above from my cygwin bash window.  Note that the
tab characters _were_ there, they just didn't translate in the cut/paste
;-)

Bob

Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure that this is a specific CYGWIN issue, but I don't have access to a bash on a machine that allows spaces in filenames (surely the underscore character was invented to avoid these ...)
> 
> In bash 2.01.1 (b20.1/W95B), the following sequences which should have identical behaviour do not:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> for arg in "$@" ; do
>     echo "$arg" # splits "arg with spaces" into 3 args
>     done
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> while [ "$1" ] ; do
>     echo "$1"  # maintains "arg with spaces" as one argument
>     shift
>     done
> 
> I haven't tested these against ash, nor with the latest bash release (2.03?), and I would be delighted to hear that this is a historical problem.
> 
> I am sure that the second behaviour is correct, especially given the bash manual's description of $@.
> 
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