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

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/1/18 10:52 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Wed, 1 Aug 2018 09:40:12 -0400
>     From:        Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
>     Message-ID:  <20180801134012.r6ojiewtx3npabhe@eeg.ccf.org>
> 
>   | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-06/msg00283.html
> 
> A bug in dash which as far as I can tell has since been fixed.
> 
>   | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-09/msg00058.html
> 
> A bug in bash, but I don't have a recent enough version to know
> if it has been fixed or not.

It was fixed a couple of weeks after being reported.

> 
>   | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-01/msg00035.html
> 
> This one is fixed as well (seems to have been a transitory
> bug as I don't see it in versions of bash I have on different
> systems than are newer, or older, than the one shown as
> affected.)

It's fixed in bash-5.0-alpha. It was fixed a couple of months before this
report.


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