On 7/31/23 12:59 PM, Wiley Young wrote:
Hi,
Regarding the "Invoking Bash" page,
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Invoking-Bash.html
Thanks for the report.
It might be more consistent and therefore perhaps more clear for all of the
newbies out there if the description of "-
If `declare -g' is supplied with a compound assignment when referring to an
existing global associative array, it attempts to convert the global
variable to an indexed
array.
$ declare -A A=(x x)
$ f() { declare -g A=([1]=1); }
$ (f)
bash: '1': arithmetic syntax error: operand expected (error toke
On 7/26/23 7:53 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:23 PM Grisha Levit wrote:
If the last character read was an (unescaped) backslash, store it as
such instead of as a CTLESC. Avoids:
$ printf '\\' | { read; echo "${REPLY@Q}"; }
bash: DEBUG warning: dequote_string: string with b
If an indexed array is set via compound assignment, its values are
cleared at the start so any arithmetic expansions in the assignment
that reference the array and any [ind]+= assignments are evaluated
using the newly assigned values. However, when assigning associative
arrays, any previously exis
