Re: "${assoc[@]@k}" doesn't get expanded to separate words within compound assignment syntax

[Oğuz]

On Sunday, March 24, 2024, Zachary Santer <zsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, but what can you do with @k?


It helps when reconstructing an associative array as a JSON object in JQ

    $ declare -A a=([x]=1 [y]=2)
    $ jq --args -n '[$ARGS.positional | _nwise(2) | {(.[0]): .[1]}] | add'
"${a[@]@k}"
    {
      "y": "2",
      "x": "1"
    }


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Oğuz