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Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:28:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <0dc71450-d082-93da-52f8-d4e6b97199af@eastlink.ca> <378fcf6a-edb0-885b-3d08-9ebee33bb911@eastlink.ca> <3885c637-c56f-2bb7-9a89-02009254ed75@eastlink.ca> <3b93f68e-d090-15c0-c15e-a3d09d702f76@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: From: Bart Schaefer Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:28:36 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: env arrays (was: Re: path PATH) To: zeurkous@blaatscaahp.org Cc: Ray Andrews , zsh-users@zsh.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Seq: 28714 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: , List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:38 PM wrote: > > It might not be able to contain arrays, but it's possible to have it > contain array *elements*-- > > % env 'blaat[0]=scaahp' 'blaat[1]=mekker' env | tail -n 2 > blaat[0]=scaahp > blaat[1]=mekker > % > > Can zsh work w/ such an approach? It could be implemented, but unless we were to rewrite the internals to use sparse arrays, import of that syntax would allow the moral equivalent of a zip bomb: env 'kaboom[999999999999999999]=waytoobig' ... Generally speaking, for security you do not want environment strings to be "programmable" in any sense.