syntax: array globs not parsed correctly

[philsc]

The following script is rejected by shfmt:

#!/bin/bash
readonly -a new_patches=( [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.patch )

The intent is to glob up all the patch files generated with git format-patch.

We get this error:

$ shfmt foo.sh
foo.sh:2:27: "[x]" must be followed by =

I'm assuming that it thinks we're using associative arrays here.

This is on the latest version as far as I can tell:

$ shfmt -version
v3.4.3

[mvdan]

Yep, this is a known limitation of the parser; see #558. It is fixable, but not trivially so, as it requires support for ambiguous syntax parsing (e.g. backtracking).

[philsc]

Is there a way via a comment or something to disable formatting on a certain line?
Similar to clang-format's // clang-format: off?

[mvdan]

I'm afraid not, but you can split your code between multiple files as an alternative.