Associative arrays are local by default

Question

Associative arrays seem to be local by default when declared inside a function body, where they should be global. The following code

#!/bin/bash

f() {
    decla         


        

Answer 1

From: Greg Wooledge
Sent: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:53:27 -0700
Subject: Re: YAQAGV (Yet Another Question About Global Variables)

bash 4.2 adds "declare -g" to create global variables from within a function.

Thank you Greg! However Debian Squeeze still has Bash 4.1.5