as i got suggested here for help-bash for new .. there is ways to crop data to wanted by cropping the excludes out but where is the simple way of keeping matching
i'd say implent backtrack references for @( .. ) etc groups pseudo exmaple declare -A big=( mess of data ) var=$( declare -p big ) now to extract the elements, beware with mess of data i dont mean 'mess' 'of' 'data' it needs to parse either no quotes, $' quotes or " quotes from beginning to end as greycat suggested, .. any idea ? im not looking for bad hacks or so actually more like adding demandant important stuff to bash's functionality such as regexes and back-references for groups .. no war make peace want war ? war the non peace
