Re: man page confusion about array with no members: var=()

2016-07-17 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/13/16 4:36 PM, idal...@idallen-fibe.dyndns.org wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 46 > Release Status: release > > Description: > The BASH man pags says "When there are no array members, > ${name[@]} expands to nothing." and then later "An array variable > is conside

man page confusion about array with no members: var=()

2016-07-13 Thread idallen
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKA