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Re: Unquoted array slice ${a[@]:0} expands to just one word if IFS doesn't have a space

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  Re: Unquoted array slice ${a[@]:0} expands to just one word if IFS doesn't have a space Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-08-02 11:21 -0400

#14437 — Re: Unquoted array slice ${a[@]:0} expands to just one word if IFS doesn't have a space

On 8/1/18 7:43 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> On both Bash 4.4.12(1)-release and 5.0.0(1)-alpha, a subarray slice like
> ${a[@]:0} expands to just one word if unquoted (and if IFS doesn't
> contain a space):

Thanks for the report. I agree that ${a[@]:sub} should behave the same as
${@:sub}.

Chet

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