Re: unsetting associative array executes commands

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/11/21 3:50 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Mär 11 2021, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > $ cat x1
> > declare -A blah
> > blah['$(DOESNOTEXIST)']=broken
> > shopt -s assoc_expand_once
>    touch blah\$
> > for i in "${!blah[@]}"; do unset blah["$i"]; done
> > declare -p blah
> > $ ../bash-5.1-patched/bash ./x1
> > declare -A blah=()

Sure:

"When  using  a  variable name with a subscript as an argument to a com-
 mand, such as with unset, without using the word expansion  syntax  de-
 scribed above, the argument is subject to pathname expansion.  If path-
 name expansion is not desired, the argument should be quoted."


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