Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment

From	"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.shell
Subject	Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment
Date	2012-05-04 14:24 -0400
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On 2012-05-04, Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't understand why initialising an associative array like the
> following doesn't work:
>
>   $ declare -A a
>   $ a=($(echo '[key]=val')
>   bash: a: [key]=val: must use subscript when assigning associative
> array
>
> Could anybody enlight me ?

a=( [key]=val )

  Or:

eval "a=( $(echo '[key]=val') )"


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bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> - 2012-05-04 01:43 -0700
  Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-05-04 14:24 -0400
    Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-05-04 19:15 -0400
      Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-05 09:42 +0200
        Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-05-05 17:43 -0400
          Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-06 03:41 +0200
            Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-05-05 22:34 -0400
        Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> - 2012-05-06 07:30 -0700
      Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> - 2012-05-06 07:35 -0700
      Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> - 2012-05-08 00:57 -0700
  Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2012-05-06 17:16 +0100
    Re: bash: Initialisation of an associative array using a compound assignment Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-07 02:06 +0200

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