On Thu, Jul 18, 2024, at 8:57 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> $a is equivalent to ${a[0]}.This is documented, by the way. It is not a bug. "Referencing an array variable without a subscript is equivalent to referencing with a subscript of 0." https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Arrays.html -- vq
