On 12/20/18 8:12 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The issue you're reporting appears to be present in arithmetic contexts
> in general, not only arrays:
>
> wooledg:~$ echo $((~0))
> bash: /home/wooledg: syntax error: operand expected (error token is
> "/home/wooledg")
This is what was fixed post-bash-4.4. I left the array subscript expansion
unchanged for backwards compatibility.
> It appears that bash is performing tilde expansion when there's no
> whitespace in front of the tilde, or bitwise negation if there is
> whitespace.
Because tilde expansion only happens on the first character of a string,
or following an unquoted `=' or `:'.
Chet
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