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Feature Request: Allow compgen to store results on a variable


From: konsolebox
Subject: Feature Request: Allow compgen to store results on a variable
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 18:23:29 +0000

Commonly `readarray -t`, a pipe, and a subshell is used to get the
results of compgen but this has two problems:

- It uses a pipe and a subshell
- Values having newlines will be split

Those can be prevented if another option is added.  E.g.:

compgen -O array_var ...

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konsolebox



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