On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:37:01PM +0300, jarno.s...@saunalahti.fi wrote: > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Arrays.html tells > "unset name[subscript] destroys the array element at index subscript." > > But if there is a file named names, nameu ,nameb, namec, namer, namei, namep > or namet in currenct directory, that does not work, unless globbing is > disabled (set -o noglob). > > So quoting should be stressed in the manual. > > BASH_VERSION 4.4.20(1)-release
It actually *is* mentioned in the manual, in 4.4. But that sentence was removed in version 5.0 for some reason. This issue was actually discussed in a help-bash thread recently: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2019-08/msg00013.html
