Thank you. Also, "append to a array variable" should be "append to an array variable".
Regards, Zack On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 3:46 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 3/24/22 11:12 AM, Zachary Santer wrote: > > 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. > > You're looking at two different manuals. > > The current doc/bashref.texi contains: > > "The @samp{+=} operator will append to a array variable when assigning > using the compound assignment syntax; see @ref{Shell Parameters} above." > > The current doc/bash.1 contains: > > The += operator will append to a array variable when assigning > using the compound assignment syntax; see > .SM > .B PARAMETERS > above. > > It's not useful to have more than a reference to the actual description, > where the rest of the variable assignment syntax is described, in the > section on arrays. > > I don't regenerate the printed manuals on every devel branch push. You need > to look at the manual source files. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
