ksh prompt

[Geoff Clare]

lvc at cbnews.att.com (lawrence.v.cipriani) writes:

>Why not use "${@:-''}" instead of ${*:-''} ?

Neither of these correctly preserve the argument list.  In fact "${@:-''}"
will pass two single quotes when there are no arguments, so it's even
worse than plain "$@" which just passes an empty string.

The only way (as far as I'm aware) to get it right in all cases is:

    ${1+"$@"}

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