Hi,
I was doing some testing for some additions to a rather big Bash script I'm
working on, and the following code kept failing whenever I attempted to run it:
"
variable="hello"
declare -g "${variable}"=("world" "me")
"
When run, it's complaining about a syntax error near "(", appearing to be on
the 'declare' line right next to where I start typing the array.
In my testing, all of the following would fail:
- declare -g "${variable}"=("world" "me")
- declare -g ${variable}=("world" "me")
- declare -g "hello"=("world" "me")
The only one that did work was the following:
- declare -g hello=("world" "me")
This appeared to be a bug for me, but I wasn't sure if this was somehow a
feature or not.
Lastly: A workaround for this was found here [1] which uses namerefs, and works
just fine (and is probably easier for me to look at anyway), but this seemed
like something that deemed a bug report regardless.
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2021-08/msg00069.html
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Hunter Wittenborn
https://www.hunterwittenborn.com
https://github.com/hwittenborn
