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  Re: Unexpected result of array assignment Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2019-07-18 11:19 +0200

#15188 — Re: Unexpected result of array assignment

On Jul 18 2019, Henning <xaoxx@t-online.de> wrote:

> 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")'

This will break if ${foo["key"]} contains any of $ ` " \ <newline>.

Andreas.

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