Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Documentation about destroying an array element Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:18:28 -0400 Lines: 19 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20190815131828.GP1218@eeg.ccf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1565875147 3001 209.51.188.17 (15 Aug 2019 13:19:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: jarno.suni@saunalahti.fi Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: jarno.suni@saunalahti.fi, bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20190815131828.GP1218@eeg.ccf.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15320 On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:37:01PM +0300, jarno.suni@saunalahti.fi wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Arrays.html tells > "unset name[subscript] destroys the array element at index subscript." > > But if there is a file named names, nameu ,nameb, namec, namer, namei, namep > or namet in currenct directory, that does not work, unless globbing is > disabled (set -o noglob). > > So quoting should be stressed in the manual. > > BASH_VERSION 4.4.20(1)-release It actually *is* mentioned in the manual, in 4.4. But that sentence was removed in version 5.0 for some reason. This issue was actually discussed in a help-bash thread recently: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2019-08/msg00013.html