$*  –  Positional Parameters

$* expands to a single word, which contains the values of all positional parameters $1, $2, etc.

$@ is similar, but produces multiple values, one for each positional parameter.

Links

• POSIX specification
• Z Shell manual

Examples

Print positional parameters as one value

1 2	set a b for p in "$*"; do echo "value: $p"; done

Output:

1	value: a b

Print positional parameters as multiple values

1 2	set a b for p in "$@"; do echo "value: $p"; done

Output:

1 2	value: a value: b