Re: -u option does not work with recursive expansion?

[Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 12:45:28AM +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On 2/15/19, Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why does the recursive expansion of foo not trigger an error
> > message with the -u option?  Is that a bug?  Is there some
> > woraround to get the expected error behaviour in all cases?
> >
> > -- snip --
> > set -u
> > foo=bar
> > unset bar
> > # ==> bar: parameter not set
> > echo $bar
> > # ==> no error?
> > echo ${${foo}}
> > -- snip --
> 
> If the above command doesn't output bar, your shell is very broken. I
> think you're confused about what ${${foo}} means though. Putting a ${}
> inside another ${} doesn't perform indirect expansion, you need (P)
> for that.

Yeah, you're right.  My memory believes this was different at some
distant point in the past, i.e. that ${${A}} used to do recursive
expansion.

Well, with (P) it's possible to do recursive expansion at the
right side of an assigntment, but can you also do soething like

foo=bar
${foo}=baz

i.e. treat the contents of foo as the lvalue of an assignment?
(Without using eval, of course.)

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt