Timeline for What is the difference between $* and $@?

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Jun 25, 2012 at 21:09	history	edited	Wojtek	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 55 characters in body
Jun 25, 2012 at 20:51	comment	added	Mikel		Unless `IFS` had a different custom value before calling the function. But yes, most of the time unsetting IFS will work.
Jun 25, 2012 at 17:39	comment	added	Wojtek		good point. unsetting `IFS` should solve that.
Jun 25, 2012 at 16:43	comment	added	Mikel		`echo $IFS` doesn't prove anything, because the shell sees the `,`, but then does word splitting using `IFS`! Try `echo "$IFS"`.
Jun 25, 2012 at 16:03	history	edited	Wojtek	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 69 characters in body
Jun 25, 2012 at 16:00	comment	added	Wojtek		Yes, I've checked that. For the peace of mind, I'll add the `unset IFS` at the end to reset it to the original, but it worked for me no problem and doing an `echo $IFS` resulted in the standard output I get from it. Setting the `IFS` withing the curly brackets introduces a new scope, so unless you export it, it will not affect the outside `IFS`.
Jun 25, 2012 at 15:11	comment	added	Mikel		"changed within a function - doesn't affect the global". Did you test that?
Jun 25, 2012 at 13:22	history	edited	Wojtek	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 148 characters in body
Jun 25, 2012 at 12:37	history	edited	Wojtek	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 34 characters in body
Jun 25, 2012 at 12:32	history	edited	Wojtek	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 153 characters in body
Jun 25, 2012 at 12:26	history	answered	Wojtek	CC BY-SA 3.0