Question

I have done a script on a machine with this command on it

printf -v $1 %s $2

It’s working fine on the server that I am using. But when I copied the scripts to another server, I get this error. What am I missing here?

EDIT: What the code does to my script is it declares variables, but is not localized on a function. Here’s the complete function

#Declare each property=value as regular bash variable=value
function getProperty {
    for x in $(echo ${1} | tr ":" "\n")
    do
        set -- $(echo ${x} | tr "=" "\n")
        printf -v $1 %s $2
        #I tried using declare, but the variables become localized to this function only
    done
}

Answer 1

Will export work?

export "${1}=$(printf %s "$2")"

I might be barking up the wrong tree here…