On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 02:37:16PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> Array variables may not (yet) be exported. > > Associative arrays can't be exported either.
> Yeah, but they seem to get propagated anyway, I must save it somewhere > like > I do _FPATH... i.e. each include adds teh included script into the INC array > so > I don't > try to re-include it. Well, I'm quite confident that they aren't propagated through the environment: imadev:~$ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.2.37(14)-release imadev:~$ unset foo imadev:~$ declare -Ax foo=([bar]=baz [quux]=frob) imadev:~$ declare -p foo declare -Ax foo='([quux]="frob" [bar]="baz" )' imadev:~$ bash imadev:~$ declare -p foo bash: declare: foo: not found So, if you're picking up the definition of _FPATH in a child process, it's coming from something else. Unless you've got another strange SuSE patch....
