On 1/15/14, 10:04 PM, Carlos Pita wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 45
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> When declaring a global associative array inside a function and
> assigning a value to it at the same time, then the array is not
> globally visible. This doesn't happen if I declare the array first and
> then do the assignment. That is:
>
> Buggy?:
> function f {
> declare -gA a=([a]=2 [b]=4)
> }
This is a bug in bash-4.2 that is fixed in bash-4.3. It looks like it was
fixed back in November, 2012.
Chet
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