Re: Bash Manual section 6.7 Arrays should mention array append notation

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/24/22 11:12 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> I'm consulting the online manual
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html>, so if
> you're looking for a version number, that would be 5.1.
>
> I just now looked at doc/bash.pdf in the git repo on Savannah. No info on
> appending is present under bash-5.2-testing or devel.

You're looking at two different manuals.

The current doc/bashref.texi contains:

"The @samp{+=} operator will append to a array variable when assigning
using the compound assignment syntax; see @ref{Shell Parameters} above."

The current doc/bash.1 contains:

The += operator will append to a array variable when assigning
using the compound assignment syntax; see
.SM
.B PARAMETERS
above.

It's not useful to have more than a reference to the actual description,
where the rest of the variable assignment syntax is described, in the
section on arrays.

I don't regenerate the printed manuals on every devel branch push. You need
to look at the manual source files.

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