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Re: Changing the way bash expands associative array subscripts


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Changing the way bash expands associative array subscripts
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 15:21:16 -0400
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On 4/6/21 11:42 AM, konsolebox wrote:

Or maybe just completely avoid this new behaviors and allow another
way to unset an element of an array.

a[$key]=()
a[@]=()

While this is mildly interesting syntax, and currently an error, I don't
think we need another new way to do this.


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