$* in bash scripting

Question

Can anybody tell me what does $* mean in bash scripting?

I tried to search on google for it, but I found only about $0, $1 an

Answer 1

See this page:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html#IFSEMPTY

The behavior of $* and $@ when $IFS is empty depends + on which Bash or sh version being run. It is therefore inadvisable to depend on this "feature" in a script.