BASH PATCH REPORT ================= Bash-Release: 4.3 Patch-ID: bash43-018 Bug-Reported-by: Geir Hauge Bug-Reference-ID: Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-05/msg00040.html Bug-Description: When assigning an array variable using the compound assignment syntax, but using `declare' with the rhs of the compound assignment quoted, the shell did not mark the variable as visible after successfully performing the assignment. Patch (apply with `patch -p0'): --- a/arrayfunc.c +++ b/arrayfunc.c @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ bind_array_var_internal (entry, ind, key array_insert (array_cell (entry), ind, newval); FREE (newval); + VUNSETATTR (entry, att_invisible); /* no longer invisible */ return (entry); } --- a/patchlevel.h +++ b/patchlevel.h @@ -25,6 +25,6 @@ regexp `^#define[ ]*PATCHLEVEL', since that's what support/mkversion.sh looks for to find the patch level (for the sccs version string). */ -#define PATCHLEVEL 17 +#define PATCHLEVEL 18 #endif /* _PATCHLEVEL_H_ */