Alexander Steinböck <bts@bts.grml.org>:
> +typeset -a conf_dir conf_ignore

Please use 'local' variables.

> +conf_dir=( $HOME/.newsbeuter /etc/skel/.newsbeuter )

'/etc/skel'?

Regards, Frank

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