Re: ${@:0:n} includes one parameter too few

[Chet Ramey]

neil@s-z.org wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 33
> Release Status: release
> 
> [apologies if this is a duplicate; the first copy may have been sent with
>  a bad From: address]
> 
> Description:
>       "${@:0:n}" should expand to $0 followed by n-1 positional parameters,
>       but actually expands to $0 followed by n-2 positional parameters,
>       for a total of only n-1 words.  This is different from ksh's
>       behaviour, and seems unintentional and inconsistent.

Thanks for the report.  This has already been fixed for bash-4.1.


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