Bash * and @ Relative to Array Elements

Internal

• $@
• $*
• Get All Indexed Array Elements
• Get All Associative Array Keys
• Get All Associative Array Values

Overview

* and @ are bash syntax elements that tokenize arrays. They are used to process command line argument ($*, $@ and "$@"), values for indexed arrays, keys and values for associative arrays, etc.

The difference between these two syntax elements becomes apparent when the array elements contain spaces.