Exporting an array in bash script

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Array variables may not (yet) be exported.

From the manpage of bash version 4.1.5 under ubuntu 10.04.

The following statement from Chet Ramey (current bash maintainer as of 2011) is probably the most official documentation about this “bug”:

There isn’t really a good way to encode an array variable into the environment.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01774.html

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