On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:20 PM, lolilolicon <loliloli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assignment to a subscripted array variable behaves differently for
> nameref vs `printf -v`, as shown below.
>
> Assignment via nameref variable:
>
> declare -a arr=()
> func() {
> local -n ref=$1
> ref='nameref'
> }
> func 'arr[0]'
> declare -p 'arr[0]' arr
>
> --- output ---
> declare -- arr[0]="nameref"
> declare -a arr='()'
The bug does not affect global nameref variables,
declare -a arr
declare -n ref
ref='arr[0]'
ref='foo'
declare -p 'arr[0]' arr
--- output ---
gn.sh: line 5: declare: arr[0]: not found
declare -a arr='([0]="foo")'
