#764365 dash: assignment from "$@" uses "$*" instead

Package:
dash
Source:
dash
Description:
POSIX-compliant shell
Submitter:
Jeffrey Sheinberg
Date:
2023-07-15 08:21:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#764365#5
Date:
2014-10-07 15:11:24 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

The following typescript shows that a shell variable assignment from
"$@" uses "$*" instead,

    $ dash -c ' IFS=:$IFS ; set -- a b c ; echo "$@" ; aa="$@" ; echo "$aa" '
    a b c
    a:b:c

Thanks,
Jeffrey Sheinberg
#764365#14
Date:
2015-12-04 19:41:49 UTC
From:
To:
Hello, I am marking this bug as wontfix: the discussion upstream [1]
highlighted that

and

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/1179

Regards,