On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:37:07PM +0100, Piotr Grzybowski wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > > > On that note, today I learned that you are not allowed to use either * > > or @ as the index of an associative array in bash. I guess I can see why, > > but... that's probably going to break something some day. > > :) > of course you can ;-) > > declare -A a; a["@"]="right"; a["*"]="hoping that you are in an empty > directory";
Huh, that's even stranger than I thought. imadev:~$ unset a; declare -A a; a=(["@"]=foo [!]=bar); declare -p a declare -A a='([@]="foo" ["!"]="bar" )' imadev:~$ unset a; declare -A a='([@]="foo" ["!"]="bar" )' bash: [@]="foo": invalid associative array key If the declare -p output is intended to be reusable shell code, then this is surely a bug. (Bash 4.3.30.)
