I'm consulting the online manual <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html>, so if you're looking for a version number, that would be 5.1.
I just now looked at doc/bash.pdf in the git repo on Savannah. No info on appending is present under bash-5.2-testing or devel. Regards. Zack On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 10:55 AM Zachary Santer <zsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > $ array=( zero one two ) > $ array+=( three four five ) > $ declare -p array > declare -a array='([0]="zero" [1]="one" [2]="two" [3]="three" > [4]="four" [5]="five")' > $ array=( [0]=zero [1]=one [2]=two ) > $ array+=( [3]=three [4]=four [5]=five ) > $ declare -p array > declare -a array='([0]="zero" [1]="one" [2]="two" [3]="three" > [4]="four" [5]="five")' > $ declare -A assoc_array=( [zero]='0' [one]='1' [two]='2' ) > $ assoc_array+=( [three]='3' [four]='4' [five]='5' ) > $ declare -p assoc_array > declare -A assoc_array='([four]="4" [one]="1" [five]="5" [zero]="0" > [two]="2" [three]="3" )' > > Talking about the lines with "+=", obviously. I only learned I could > do this when I found it in existing code. > > Regards, > Zack >