It seems that pathname expansion combined with array syntax is quite tricky. And the bash manual seems to encourage an error prone syntax. I would propose to replace the sentence (from bash(1) GNU bash, version 3.00.14): > The unset builtin is used to destroy arrays. unset name[subscript] > destroys the array element at index subscript. by: unset name[subscript] has an unpredictable result depending on the existence of a file named: names or nameu or nameb ... the settings of options nullglob , failglob , extglob , and the environment variable GLOBIGNORE; but unset "name[subscript]" destroys the array element at index subscript.
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