Re: Print non-readonly variables with declare +r -p

[Chet Ramey]

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On 12/14/11 4:10 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:

> Ah. I had assumed the single quotes added around array compound asssignment 
> broke this (intentionally?), but now I see it's valid. I expected declare -a 
> y='([0]="a" [1]="b c" [2]="d")' to set the first element of y to that entire 
> string.

Recall that arguments to builtin commands already go through a round of
expansion, including quote removal, before they're processed as assignment
statements.

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