BASH: how to define an array as environment variable before calling a bash script
arrays, bash, shell
Solution
Incredibility weird.... I have never seen that before.
It looks like the array is not passed to the subshell. One way around this is to source the script instead of executing it:
declare -a MYARR=( 1 2 ); . ./myscript.sh
Problem
In bash, you can do ``` MYVAR="somevalue" ./myscript.sh ``` and the variable MYVAR will be defined when running myscript.sh. My questions is: can I do the same for arrays? Unfortunately, neither of the following works. ``` MYARR=( 1 2 ) ./myscript.sh MYARR[0]=1 MYARR[1]=2 ./myscript.sh declare -a MYARR=( 1 2 ) ./myscript.sh ```