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Re: [Help-bash] Why bash does not recoganize array type smartly?

From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Why bash does not recoganize array type smartly?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:32:11 -0400
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On 3/16/16 9:39 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> I'd still prefer it if bash also had
> the address@hidden expansion from ksh93 so that some minimal type checking is
> possible.

Look at the address@hidden expansion in bash-4.4.

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