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| From: | Mart Frauenlob |
| Subject: | Re: Indirect expansion and arrays |
| Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:49:57 -0000 |
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On 29.07.2010 22:55, Bernd Eggink wrote:
It seems that indirect expansion doesn't work with arrays:
$ a=(x y z)
$ b=a
$ echo "${!b[0]} ${!b[1]} ${!b[2]}"
x
Is that intended? The documentation isn't explicit about it.
IMHO it would be very desirable to have a indirect expansion facility
for arrays. Otherwise there is only a choice between passing all
elements to a function, which is time-consuming, or using eval, which is
cumbersome and error-prone.
yes, that would be nice - as a feature.but it somehow conflicts logically with ${!array[@]}, which returns the indicies of an array (some ksh derivied feature I think).
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