Difference between $* and $@

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Somebody please tell me the difference between $@ and $*

Thanks in advance.

Saneesh Joseph

2

You can find the difference between $* and $@ only when you use them within quotes

$* will combine all arguments to a single string
$@ will have each arguments as a seperate string

See the below example

/export/home/test/mons>cat samp.sh
for i in "$*"
do
print $i
done
for i in "$@"
do
print $i
done

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