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Re: test -v and environment variable names with subscripts

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  Re: test -v and environment variable names with subscripts Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-07-18 15:50 -0400

#14362 — Re: test -v and environment variable names with subscripts

On 7/17/18 5:19 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> When there is a variable with a name that includes a subscript in the
> environment, test -v looks at that variable rather than an array with
> that subscript.

Even though bash needs to do a better job to segregate environment
variables with invalid names, there are a couple of changes I can
make to the test -v code to improve it, too.

Chet

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