# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # # a start at a test suite for what it means for an array to be set or unset and # how to test that state typeset -A A A[a]=1 typeset -a a a[1]=1 if [ -v A ]; then echo assoc 1; else echo assoc 1 unset; fi if [ -v a ]; then echo array 1; else echo array 1 unset; fi if [ -v "${A[@]}" ]; then echo assoc 2; else echo assoc 2 unset; fi if [ -v "${a[@]}" ]; then echo array 2; else echo array 2 unset; fi echo ${A-unset1} echo ${a-unset2} echo ${A[@]-unset3} echo ${a[@]-unset4} echo ${#A[@]} echo ${#a[@]} typeset -A B typeset -a b echo ${#B[@]} echo ${#b[@]} scalar1=foo scalar2= # this now checks for A[@] treating @ as a valid key - post-bash-5.1 if [ -v A[@] ]; then echo assoc A; else echo assoc A unset; fi if [ -v a[@] ]; then echo array a; else echo array a unset; fi if [ ${#A[@]} -gt 0 ]; then echo assoc A; else echo assoc A unset; fi if [ ${#a[@]} -gt 0 ]; then echo array a; else echo array a unset; fi if [ -v B[@] ]; then echo assoc B; else echo assoc B unset; fi if [ -v b[@] ]; then echo array b; else echo array b unset; fi if [ ${#B[@]} -gt 0 ]; then echo assoc B; else echo assoc B unset; fi if [ ${#b[@]} -gt 0 ]; then echo array b; else echo array b unset; fi if [ -v scalar1[@] ]; then echo scalar 1; else echo scalar 1 unset; fi if [ -v scalar2[@] ]; then echo scalar 2; else echo scalar 2 unset; fi if [ -v scalar3[@] ]; then echo scalar 3; else echo scalar 3 unset; fi unset a A declare -A assoc=([one]=one [two]=two [three]=three) declare -a array=(one two three) scalar="one two three" scalar2= recho "${scalar[@]}" echo assoc: ${#assoc[@]} echo array: ${#array[@]} echo scalar: ${#scalar} echo scalar: ${#scalar[@]} echo scalar: ${#scalar2} echo scalar: ${#scalar2[@]} echo scalar: ${#scalar3} echo scalar: ${#scalar3[@]}