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Re: Tilde expansion bug in associative array assignments?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Tilde expansion bug in associative array assignments? |
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Mon, 6 Feb 2023 16:31:55 -0500 |
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On 2/6/23 7:33 AM, Marco wrote:
I am seeing this potential regression on code checked out from
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash.git at version ec8113b:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ echo "$BASH_VERSION"
5.2.15(1)-release
$ declare -A associative_array=([key]=~/Desktop)
$ ls -d "${associative_array[key]}"
ls: cannot access '~/Desktop': No such file or directory
Thanks for the report. The key should be tilde-expanded and the RHS of
the assignment should be tilde expanded as in assignment statements (there
is a subtle difference).
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/