>>>>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Chet Ramey wrote: > 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. That doesn't seem obvious from the documentation for -v. So, is there any syntax that allows to test if a value has been assigned to the array variable? Especially, to distinguish VARNAME=() (empty array) from VARNAME being unset?
