On Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 16:58 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > 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. >
to me , its a valid err of non exist value another normal is to || true with like = or := ah i suggest an shopt , cause imo both approaches are valid but different greets 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/ > > >
