On 2/19/20 7:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Bash Version: 5.0 > Patch Level: 16 > Release Status: release > > Description: > The GNU Bash Reference Manual Version 5.0 says about test -v: > '-v VARNAME' > True if the shell variable VARNAME is set (has been > assigned a value). > > However, it doesn't always return true when VARNAME is an > (indexed or associative) array that has been assigned a value.
If you refer to an array variable without the subscript, it's equivalent to referencing element 0. -- ``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/