On 4/28/09, Janis Papanagnou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  > From: [email protected]
>
> >
>  > The following one line example should print "cc bb aa" but yields to a
>  > syntax error:
>  >
>  > ksh93 -c 'typeset -a a=( [0]="aa" [1]="bb" [2]="cc" ) ; typeset -m
>  > 'j=a[0]' ; typeset -m 'a[0]=a[1]' ; typeset -m 'a[1]=j' ; print
>  > "$...@]}"'
>  > ksh93[1]: typeset: : invalid variable name
>  >
>  > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
>
>
> What (do you think) is option -m supposed to do?

typeset -m a=b should rename variable b to a.
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