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Re: compgen -A arrayvar does not include associative arrays


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: compgen -A arrayvar does not include associative arrays
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:56:57 -0400
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On 4/21/16 3:21 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> $ echo ${BASH_CMDS@a}; compgen -A arrayvar BASH_CMDS; echo $?
> A
> 1
> 
> The description doesn't specify that the output is limited to indexed
> arrays only and it would be nice to have associative array variables
> included as well.

I will add something for associative arrays in a future bash version.
I'm going to spend time wrapping up bash-4.4/readline-7.0.

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