bash arrays - what is difference between ${#array_name[*]} and ${#array_name[@]}

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Published on 2010-06-17T09:36:46Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 9:43 UTC
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bash-3.00$ cat arr.bash  
#!/bin/bash  

declare -a myarray  
myarray[2]="two"  
myarray[5]="five"  

echo ${#myarray[*]}  
echo ${#myarray[@]}  

bash-3.00$ ./arr.bash  
2  
2

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