Re: printf '%s\n' "$@" versus <<< redirection

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 05:02:22PM +0100, alex xmb ratchev wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2023, 4:18 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 10:46:08AM +0000, goncholden wrote:
> > > My intention is to use prinf line by line on arguments containing
> > newlines.  With a newline also introduced between arguments $1 $2 $3 etc.
> >
> > This is quite unique.  I don't believe I've ever seen someone try to
> > write a command where each argument is a group of lines, and all of
> > the groups of lines are supposed to be concatenated together to form
> > one bigger group of lines.
> >
> 
> i d try keep in a var array asignment , for speed
> read , and stdin to tmp file , no good speed

Yeah, I immediately thought about arrays.  But without knowing where
these arguments are coming from, or what else is involved in this
script's goal, I didn't want to make suggestions which would involve
huge rewrites.