On 10/17/23 3:32 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
The reason is that if there was no variable found prior to expanding the subscript, bash does not check to see if one was created during that process.
Thanks, I'll consider it. Behavior varies across shells in this area. Chet -- ``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/