Dennis Williamson <[email protected]> writes:

> $ echo $((foo))  # expansion succeeds, indirection fails
> dash: 4: Illegal number: bar

The indirection didn't fail, it just didn't produce a number, so the
expression is malformed.

Andreas.

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