Error in parsing csvgrep filters

Asked Sep 13 '16 at 19:50

Active Sep 15 '16 at 15:44

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I've made an associative array in a bash script like

declare -A file
file[a.b.c]="--json --filter '{\"filter \" : \"value \"}'"

Trying to execute

for i in "${!file[@]}"; do
   csvgrep $i ${file[$i]}
 done

and I get error message

Error: [csvgrep/0] Unable to parse filters

Filters are working fine out of script. Any ideas?

edited Sep 13 '16 at 20:17

asked Sep 13 '16 at 19:50

pole gar

Quotes aren't processed after expanding variables. – Barmar Sep 13 '16 at 20:07
So, what can I do? – pole gar Sep 13 '16 at 20:11
You should use an array instead of a string containing quotes. But since bash doesn't have arrays of arrays, you'll need to use `eval`. – Barmar Sep 13 '16 at 20:18
Could you please give me an example of where/how could `eval` be used in the code? – pole gar Sep 13 '16 at 20:24
`eval "csvgrep $i ${file[$i]}"` – Barmar Sep 13 '16 at 20:42
If you search SO for `[bash] eval quotes` you'll find a number of other questions that show how to use it. – Barmar Sep 13 '16 at 20:44
Works,thanks a lot – pole gar Sep 14 '16 at 04:42
Any other ideas, please? eval is not acceptable – pole gar Sep 15 '16 at 08:48
I've reopened since the array solution in the other question won't work with the 2-dimensional array. I'm not sure there's anything better than `eval`. – Barmar Sep 15 '16 at 15:45

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