On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:13:21AM -0500, E R wrote: > With bash is there any difference between the expressions ${1+"$@"} and "$@"?
No. > Is there any difference with other sh-like shells? In some Bourne shells, "$@" with an empty set of positional parameters may expand to a single empty words, instead of no words at all. Hence the ${1+"$@"} workaround for ancient shells.