On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:57:21 AM Chet Ramey wrote: > On 12/13/11 3:13 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > > I imagine this is ok because Bash's declare -p is intended to be human- > > readable only, whereas Ksh guarantees -p produces output in a format > > reusable as input. > > Bash's `declare -p' output is intended to be reusable as input, though the > documentation doesn't make that explicit.
Ah. I had assumed the single quotes added around array compound asssignment broke this (intentionally?), but now I see it's valid. I expected declare -a y='([0]="a" [1]="b c" [2]="d")' to set the first element of y to that entire string.
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