Re: Array name expansion in bash-4.3

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/22/14, 1:24 PM, Corentin Peuvrel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think I found a bug in bash-4.3.
> 
> An example should be self-explanatory :
> 
> bash-4.2 :
> $ arr=( idx1 idx2 )
> $ i=arr[1]
> $ echo ${!i}
> idx2
> $ echo ${!i/x/X}
> idX2
> 
> bash-4.3 :
> $ arr=( idx1 idx2 )
> $ i=arr[1]
> $ echo ${!i}
> idx2
> $ echo ${!i/x/X}
> idX1
> 
> If we use pattern substitution (or removing prefix/suffix pattern, ...)
> with an expansion of an array name which contain a non zero index, it will
> still use the index 0.

Thanks for the report.  This is the result of the variable indirection
discarding the correct index.  The attached patch should fix it.

Chet

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indirect-array-element.patch
Description: Source code patch