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+In [[bash]] we can reference arguments as an array using `$@`.
+This isn't what we want when opening a new file for example, e.g `hx "$@"` opens a file for each argument.
+We can use `$*` to reference them as a single string, thus `hx "$*"` opens 1 file with the name of all arguments as a single string.