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

[Zachary Santer]

Neither of Mr. Wooledge's responses made it into my inbox, and they're not
in my spam folder, either. I only saw them upon examining the bug-bash
Archives, wondering if what I was emailing in was getting there.

Thank you, sir, and pardon my misunderstanding.

Regards,
Zack

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:12 AM Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Regards.
> Zack
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 10:55 AM Zachary Santer <zsanter@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> $ array=( zero one two )
>> $ array+=( three four five )
>> $ declare -p array
>> declare -a array='([0]="zero" [1]="one" [2]="two" [3]="three"
>> [4]="four" [5]="five")'
>> $ array=( [0]=zero [1]=one [2]=two )
>> $ array+=( [3]=three [4]=four [5]=five )
>> $ declare -p array
>> declare -a array='([0]="zero" [1]="one" [2]="two" [3]="three"
>> [4]="four" [5]="five")'
>> $ declare -A assoc_array=( [zero]='0' [one]='1' [two]='2' )
>> $ assoc_array+=( [three]='3' [four]='4' [five]='5' )
>> $ declare -p assoc_array
>> declare -A assoc_array='([four]="4" [one]="1" [five]="5" [zero]="0"
>> [two]="2" [three]="3" )'
>>
>> Talking about the lines with "+=", obviously. I only learned I could
>> do this when I found it in existing code.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Zack
>>
>