Bug or unwanted behaviour in echo ?

[Jelte Jansen]

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Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> 
> After swapping characters around I realized that echo just interprets
> $@ (which in our case is null).
> 

that's your shell doing the replacement, not echo.

With most most shells you can inhibit this behaviour by using single
quotes. Escaping the @ should work in some cases too.

$ echo "abc$@"
abc
$ echo 'abc$@'
abc$@

Jelte
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