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Re: nullglob make unset on array member fail ?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: nullglob make unset on array member fail ?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:05:30 -0500
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On 1/23/17 9:04 AM, admn ombres wrote:
> $ x=(x); echo ${#x[@]}; shopt -s nullglob; unset x[0]; echo ${#x[@]}
> 1
> 1
> $ x=(x); echo ${#x[@]}; shopt -u nullglob; unset x[0]; echo ${#x[@]}
> 1
> 0

`unset' is a builtin; its arguments are subject to all the shell word
expansions, including globbing.  If you don't want to take a chance on
the effects of globbing modifying the word, quote it.

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