On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:30:13PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > For an array, you mean? like > array a=( 1 2 3) > array a+=( 4 5 6) > then you get array a=(5 7 9).
Oh dear gods, no. imadev:~$ a=(1 2 3) imadev:~$ a+=(4 5 6) imadev:~$ declare -p a declare -a a='([0]="1" [1]="2" [2]="3" [3]="4" [4]="5" [5]="6")' If you're proposing a change to this, it will break MANY scripts.
