Re: Changing the way bash expands associative array subscripts

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/30/21 7:05 PM, konsolebox wrote:

> As I've observed, in single expansion mode, unset will fail to unset a
> value when the key has a closing bracket in it. Perhaps unset should
> check the last character first when looking for the closing bracket.
> Tested in 5.1.4.

There is some support for this as part of assoc_expand_once, but it's
incomplete in bash-5.1.

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