# change behavior of shell builtins to extend assoc_expand_once to indexed # arrays export subscript='$(echo INJECTION! >&2 ; echo 0)' shopt -s array_expand_once printf -v a["$subscript"] %s hi declare -p a unset a printf -v "a[$subscript]" %s hi declare -p a a[0]=hi unset a["$subscript"] declare -p a unset a unset a["$subscript"] declare -p a unset -v a read a["$subscript"] <<