# 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 . # # # make sure indirect expansion for arrays uses the closest-scope instance # of the resulting variable name array_1=("PASS") array_2=("1 foo" "2 foo") unsafe_fn () { local array_1=('HELLO') local a=("${!1}") b=("${!2}") printf '%s;' "${a[@]}" "${b[@]}" printf '\n' } safe_fn () { local a=("${!1}") b=("${!2}") local array_1=('FAIL') printf '%s;' "${a[@]}" "${b[@]}" printf '\n' } unsafe_fn 'array_1[@]' 'array_2[@]' safe_fn 'array_1[@]' 'array_2[@]' echo after: ${array_1[@]}