Re: test '-v' - associative vs. normal array discrepancy - a bug ?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 07:59:42PM +0000, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> [ ${#v[@] -gt 0 ] does not work
> if $v is a  normal variable.

Doesn't it?  It seems to work for me (once you fix the typo):

imadev:~$ unset v; v=''; test "${#v[@]}" -gt 0 && echo yes
yes
imadev:~$ unset v; v='x'; test "${#v[@]}" -gt 0 && echo yes
yes
imadev:~$ unset v; test "${#v[@]}" -gt 0 && echo yes
imadev:~$ 

Granted, it's an awkward expression.  I'm not arguing against fixing -v.