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On 12/14/11 4:10 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> 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.
Recall that arguments to builtin commands already go through a round of
expansion, including quote removal, before they're processed as assignment
statements.
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