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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem to initialize ksh array when first element includes hyphen Post 302539987 by Scott on Tuesday 19th of July 2011 09:28:57 AM
Old 07-19-2011
Because "allArgs" is empty.first time, it's treating "-all" as an argument to "set".

If you have some values in allArgs before appending itself then -add, the problem goes away.
 

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