On 2/4/15 9:42 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.)
You're right, it should be quoted. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/