Issues With Bash Arrays

Just figuring a few things out and writing it down for future self and anyone facing similar problems

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I don’t necessarily consider myself a bash expert but I feel like I am being forced to become one.

Initially I just wanted to write a POC in bash and move it to another language. But I’ve been writing this POC for like a year now…

So I’m currently working with bash arrays and it a few glitches. There are different older and newer ways to declare or use bash arrays. Many, many posts show the older ways because bash has been around so long. I’m going to stick to the newer ways because I *hope* you are not using outdated software if you are using my code for secure deployments with proper governance.

First of all, I recently discovered “local” because none of the older posts reference it. This is a very important construct because it helps you keep variables specific to a function and not overwritten by some other function that has a variable with the same name.