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Re: Documentation about destroying an array element
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: Documentation about destroying an array element |
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Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:18:28 -0400 |
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:37:01PM +0300, jarno.suni@saunalahti.fi wrote:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Arrays.html tells
> "unset name[subscript] destroys the array element at index subscript."
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> But if there is a file named names, nameu ,nameb, namec, namer, namei, namep
> or namet in currenct directory, that does not work, unless globbing is
> disabled (set -o noglob).
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> So quoting should be stressed in the manual.
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> BASH_VERSION 4.4.20(1)-release
It actually *is* mentioned in the manual, in 4.4. But that sentence was
removed in version 5.0 for some reason.
This issue was actually discussed in a help-bash thread recently:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2019-08/msg00013.html