Character
Definition
$*
Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, it expands to a single word with the value of each parameter separated by the first character of the IFS special variable.

$@
Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When the expansion occurs within double quotes, each parameter [...]

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Although there are about a million different bibliography formats for LaTeX, there are still times when you just need to customize your own. If you’ve ever looked at the bibliography definition files (.bst file) then you know that creating one from scratch is not something that you want to do. Fortunately, LaTeX often [...]

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I cannot count how many times I have thrown my hands up in frustration as Windows keeps yelling at me about a being unable to delete a file because it is still open. Who is holding it open? Enter Process Explorer. For a sampling of its many cool features you can read [...]

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This article hit way too close to home. This is EXACTLY what happened to my current project. The powers that be thought it would be a great idea to not only rewrite major portions of our code base, but they thought that they might as well change all the system interfaces and add [...]

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