bash question: command substitution is eating my arrays!

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 03:57 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> The script below displays some (for me) surprising behaviour.

I've done a bit more research on this and come to the conclusion that
while it is not actually impossible, the available solutions in bash
are complicated and mostly unreadable.

Please don't waste your time on this issue, I apologise for bringing it
up.

My solution was to move the caching logic into my main loop, and only
do the expensive query in a separate function. It's not as nice as
hiding the cache and the query in one function, but it is not too bad,
quite readable, and it works well. My script run time has dropped by
80%, so I'm happy :-)

Regards, K.

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