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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: Feature Request: Allow compgen to store results on a variable
From:       konsolebox <konsolebox () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-09-02 15:38:03
Message-ID: CAJnmqwazBiSPcu41cgqQKG4E7ZJhCYPibPCrDkk6X98Jfc=aLg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 2:23 AM konsolebox <konsolebox@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Commonly `readarray -t`, a pipe, and a subshell is used to get the
> results of compgen but this has two problems:
>
> - It uses a pipe and a subshell
> - Values having newlines will be split
>
> Those can be prevented if another option is added.  E.g.:
>
> compgen -O array_var ...

Chet,

Thanks for this one too.  (Implemented in 5.3 with -V)

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konsolebox

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