Cam Hutchison <c...@xdna.net> wrote: > Sigh. Sorry, it was a typo. That explains why it did not work for the OP.
Phew! These array things are new to me in a shell context - I've used associative and indexed arrays for years in awk and perl, though - and after your example didn't work I went digging through the man page. I missed it the first time I read the paragraph, but then twigged the explicit use of the word "compound" in the relevant sentence: "When += is applied to an array variable using compound assignment (see Arrays below) ... new values are appended to the array ...". Digging further I found that "compound" referred to a list assignment such as X=($Y $Z). Regards, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ornk69xaek....@news.roaima.co.uk
