Re: ="${!a[@]}" expands incorrectly bash 5.1 and above + patch

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/29/26 4:56 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

On 5/24/26 6:47 AM, Emanuele Torre wrote:

I will point out that this patch also changes the behaviour of  [@]@k
in assignments, and maybe also that of some other @OP expansions, to
one which I would think is more correct:

It changes the expansion of quoted $@ in contexts where word splitting
doesn't take place.

At least on the rhs of assignment statements.

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