Associative arrays: error “declare: -A: invalid option”

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Make sure the version of bash being invoked as interpreter at the top of your shell script (#!/bin/bash or whatever) is also version 4. If you’re doing:

bash --version

and it’s giving you v4, do a which bash to check it’s location.

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