Re: access exported var

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/16/23 12:52 AM, Kerin Millar wrote:

> Bash cannot export arrays. It's not particularly surprising. The value of an 
> environment variable is a NUL-terminated string; there's no universally safe 
> delimiter that could be used to join the array's elements.

There is a compile-time option (ARRAY_EXPORT) that you can define to
export arrays. It uses a technique similar to exporting functions. Try it
out if you're curious.

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