On 7/8/10 10:27 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> array=(a b c)
> echo ${arr...@]:1:2}
>
>
> I'm looking for the document for the above usage. I checked the Arrays
> section of man bash, but I don't see a description of such usage. I
> also searched man bash with [0-9]+:[0-9]+. But I still don't find a
> description. Could anybody let me know where this is documented?
In substring expansion:
If parameter is @, the result is length posi-
tional parameters beginning at offset. If parameter is an
indexed array name subscripted by @ or *, the result is the
length members of the array beginning with ${parameter[offset]}.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
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