Regarding the below commentary by me in response to Chip, upon which Tony saw fit to comment (by quoting the bash manual):
I have no need for manual quoting or any lack of understanding about how @ works. I was merely responding to Chip's implicit statement that there's nothing in the bash manual explicitly mentioning the ${@:expr:expr} syntax. In agreement with Chip, I was noting that there is adequate documentation therein of what @ does and of what ${var:expr:expr} does, but you sort of have to "read between the lines" to put the two together.
With that said, I think we have reached end of thread.
On Saturday, August 15, 2020, 12:13:06 PM EDT, 'J S' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that format, ${@:var1:var2} doesn't appear to be explicitly
> mentioned in the bash man page (although ${parameter:var1:var2} is).
I don't know if it is ever explicitly mentioned, but it is pretty clear that @ can generally be used throughout to refer to all the args together, sort of as if they were all concatenated together. I find the bash man page large and complicated, so I can't say for sure how explicitly stated this is.
-- I have no need for manual quoting or any lack of understanding about how @ works. I was merely responding to Chip's implicit statement that there's nothing in the bash manual explicitly mentioning the ${@:expr:expr} syntax. In agreement with Chip, I was noting that there is adequate documentation therein of what @ does and of what ${var:expr:expr} does, but you sort of have to "read between the lines" to put the two together.
With that said, I think we have reached end of thread.
On Saturday, August 15, 2020, 12:13:06 PM EDT, 'J S' via vim_use <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that format, ${@:var1:var2} doesn't appear to be explicitly
> mentioned in the bash man page (although ${parameter:var1:var2} is).
I don't know if it is ever explicitly mentioned, but it is pretty clear that @ can generally be used throughout to refer to all the args together, sort of as if they were all concatenated together. I find the bash man page large and complicated, so I can't say for sure how explicitly stated this is.
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