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Re: [Help-bash] Awkward behavior of empty arrays


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] Awkward behavior of empty arrays
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:58:22 -0400
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On 9/8/17 3:39 AM, Cristian Zoicas wrote:

> My need of using empty arrays was raised exactly from the ideas
> mentioned in this document: With arrays you do not have to take
> into account or defend against word splitting.

You do; you just don't have to use word splitting to simulate
individual array elements.

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