Re: Behaviour of test -v with assoc array and quote character in key

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:17:10PM +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> what, sorry, mailing stuff isnt much clear to me, ... its not possible to
> have a var=\'\] ; assoc[$var] ?

It should work for simple assignment and retrieval.

You need to add quotes for [[ -v 'assoc[$var]' ]] to work, and math
contexts are dodgy as hell.  No amount of quoting will make
(( 'assoc[$var]'++ )) work.  If you want to increment the value of
this array element, you'll need to retrieve it into a temporary string
variable, increment that, and then copy it back into the array.