Pattern: Missing use of "$@" to prevent whitespace problems
Issue: -
$*, unquoted, is subject to word splitting and globbing.
Let's say you have three arguments: baz, foo bar and *
"$@" will expand into exactly that: baz, foo bar and *
$* will expand into multiple other arguments: baz, foo, bar, file.txt and otherfile.jpg
Since the latter is rarely expected or desired, ShellCheck warns about it.
Example of incorrect code:
cp $* ~/dirExample of correct code:
cp "$@" ~/dir