Darren New wrote:
> Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>> Is that a meaningful value about something or random memory contents
>> relayed by underlying pointer arithmetic in bash???
>
> $- is the set of options you passed to bash. Hence, $-3 is hB3 if you
> invoked bash with -h -B as options.
>
> GIYF. :-)
Thanks DN.
I retract my unfounded defamation of bash. I tried echo ${1-} but didn't
even think of trying echo ${-}. Duh! And I confess to not looking very
hard into the man page either. Bad me .. giving answers without thinking
too hard. Sorry, CE. ;-[
Regards,
..jim
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