On 2/20/20 6:23 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> Even more strangely, quoting apparently matters...
Yes, this is a bug:
> $ echo "${VAR1[@]@A}"
> declare -rl VAR1=''
>> The question is whether the unset variables should display commands to
>> set the attributes (@A) or display any attributes (@a).
>
> I think that it would be expected that @A prints the same as 'declare
> -p' for given variable.
That's not unreasonable, but it takes some consideration. You have to be
careful separating out these cases from the usual case, where a variable
name in a brace expansion is expanded to nothing if it's unset.
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