> but it seemed to work and not be at fault upon further
> exploration. Now it's one of 2 Associative arrays (often
> called "'map's" in the code where they are used as such)
> that is failing due to illegal subscript messages.
>
> The fact that one of the maps works and the other does not
> seems odd. They are both initialized the same way.
Have you considered printing the value you're trying to use as a
subscript before the failing line is executed?
> Is it really the case that now that the problem is better
> defined, that it really is just some problem in bash
> that can only reproduced on a booting system?
Unlikely.
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