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Thank you, I read up on "variable indirection" and it now makes sense.

so I'm going over this script someone else wrote and I haven't seen the aforementioned construct before.


The code says:
declare VAR1="${!VARIABLE:-\n}"


I know what the ":-\n" does but I...

What I ended up doing was using a piece of code I found on stackoverflow:
json2keyvalue() {
echo $JSON | jq -r '{Element1,Element2,Element3} | to_entries|map("\(.key)=\(.value|tostring)")[]'
}...