On Aug 10 2021, Joe Pater wrote: > The attached bash script (named 'test'), when run on my laptop, > produces the following output: > > xyzerg
That's because the value of ${words[0]} ends with a CR. You can see that if you pipe the output to `cat -A'. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."