Re: bug: readonly array that is empty causes error (whereas not empty does not)

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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:49 PM, James Thomas Moon <jtm.moon@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my case, I would like to preserve a copy of all passed arguments:
>
>     set -ue
>     readonly -a ARGS=("${@}")
>
> If no arguments are passed then the script fails.  It's surprising the error
> behavior diverges depending upon setting an empty array or non-empty array.


I can't reproduce this.  My script always returns 0.  What version of
Bash are you using?  Or perhaps can you post your actual script?  The
cause of it might be somewhere.

    #!/bin/bash
    set -ue
    readonly -a ARGS=("$@")
    echo "$?"