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On 18/07/2019 03:16, Darren 'Tadgy' Austin wrote:

>          foo=(["key"]="${foo["key"]} value2")

using eval shoud also succeed, even for older bash:

	eval 'foo=(["key"]="'"${foo["key"]}"' value2")'

Henning