On 3/23/10 6:41 AM, Marc Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > > I could not find the dollar square brackets $[ ] expansion documented > in the manual. Is it the same as $(( )) ?
It's the deprecated version of $((...)), dating from Posix.2 draft 9 circa 1989 or so. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/