Re: New word splitting semantics for kvpair compound assignment

On 8/21/26 7:49 AM, Zachary Santer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 9:19 AM Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Please test out the compound assignment statement behavior.
> 
> See attached.
> 
> $ ~/random/2026-08-19\ assoc\ compound\ assignment/generator
> CTRL-C to end test
> 59071 tests
> 0 errors
> 
> I think you're good.

Wow, thanks.
>>> I know that bash by default can't actually export indexed or
>>> associative arrays into the environment, but was that last bit just
>>> undocumented behavior, or was that not supposed to happen at all?
>>
>> You can set the export attribute, it just doesn't get added to the
>> environment.
> 
> The manual doesn't list -a and -A as valid options for the export command.

It doesn't seem worth it, since you can't put them in the environment,
does it?

> The manual says name[=word] for readonly and name[=value] for the
> three other declaration commands. export has ... outside the square
> brackets, and the other three have them inside.

OK? It doesn't change the semantics. I suppose there's a consistency
argument there.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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