Re: test -v for array does not work as documented

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: test -v for array does not work as documented
Date	2020-02-19 10:22 -0500
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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.


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