Re: Funny behaviour of associative arrays

[alex xmb ratchev]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 11:00 alex xmb ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 07:29 n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:
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>> Is this correct?
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>>     declare -A l1
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>>     l1=([a]=b [c]=d)
>>     echo ${!l1[@]}
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>>     l1=($(echo [a]=b [c]=d))
>>     echo ${!l1[@]}
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> declare -A "l1=( $( echo [ab]=22 ) )"
> declare -A "l1+=( name content )"
> l1+=( third 33 )
> declare -p l1
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> declare -A l1=([ab]="22" [third]="33" [name]="content" )
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> u need to pass it thru a shell keyword or builtin or smth , to make it
> actually parse this stuff
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> $ bash  t4
>> c a
>> [a]=b [c]=d
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>> If so, why?  And how can I assign a list of members to an associative
>> array?
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mkdir -p at1/{$'\1',$'$( echo foo )'}
declare -a "recent=( $(
ls -ac --quoting-style=shell-escape at1/
) )"
rm -rf at1
declare -p recent
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declare -a recent=([0]=$'\001' [1]="\$( echo foo )" [2]="." [3]="..")

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