Re: associative array assignment from the output of a function

[Andreas Schwab]

"Chris F.A. Johnson" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> Axel <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> After your answer, I checked and I think the error message is not
>>> related to the variable name collision :
>>>
>>> address@hidden plugins]$ unset foo
>>> address@hidden plugins]$ func()
>>>> {
>>>> echo "[a]=5 [b]=10"
>>>> }
>>> address@hidden plugins]$ declare -A foo=( $(func) )
>>
>> $ declare -A foo=('[a]=5')
>
>    Drop the qotes:

You missed the point.

Andreas.

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