Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>..
> With a smile I tried $-1 and did actually get some output:
> hB1
>
> Is that a meaningful value about something or random memory contents
> relayed by underlying pointer arithmetic in bash???
>
> echo $-2 gives hB2 and $-3 hB3.
>
> My shell gives somewhat different values than the script: himBH1 himBH2
> himBH3
>
> I'm using bash 2.05b.0(1)-release on Mac OS X.
I get similar results from
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
The fact that anything at all is returned for a "negative" index is
weird! Maybe it deserves a bug report?
I do note that ${-1} returns an error message.
Regards,
..jim
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