n...@s-z.org wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
>
> [apologies if this is a duplicate; the first copy may have been sent with
> a bad From: address]
>
> Description:
> "${@:0:n}" should expand to $0 followed by n-1 positional parameters,
> but actually expands to $0 followed by n-2 positional parameters,
> for a total of only n-1 words. This is different from ksh's
> behaviour, and seems unintentional and inconsistent.
Thanks for the report. This has already been fixed for bash-4.1.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
