On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 07:00:42PM +0200, Oğuz wrote: > $ declare -n b=a[0]
I can't see any documentation that supports the idea that this should be allowed in the first place. -n Give each name the nameref attribute, making it a name reference to another variable. That other variable is defined by the value of name. All references, assign‐ ments, and attribute modifications to name, except those using or changing the -n attribute itself, are performed on the variable referenced by name's value. In at least three places there, it says that that "target" of the name reference is a variable. a[0] isn't a variable.