The latest push to the devel branch extends the assoc_expand_once
semantics to indexed array variables. This means that a construct
like
export subscript='$(uname >&2 ; echo 0)'
shopt -s assoc_expand_once
printf -v a["$subscript"] %s hi
declare -p a
will no longer run `uname' and assign "hi" to subscript 0. This affects
shell builtins that take array references as arguments, which undergo one
round of word expansion before the builtin performs the assignment.
The affected builtins are primarily
printf
read
wait
since those assign values to variable names passed as arguments.
The option also affects
declare
let
local
typeset
test
[
unset
For example, the following does not run `uname':
export subscript='$(uname >&2 ; echo 0)'
shopt -s assoc_expand_once
let a["$subscript"]+=1
To better describe its functionality, I renamed assoc_expand_once to
array_expand_once. The old name is still accepted.
When the next version of bash is released, the old bash-5.2 behavior (that
runs `uname' in the above examples) will be available if the shell
compatibility level is set to 52 or lower.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
