Helpers to work with key value map storage in bash

bash-key-value-map-helpers.sh

# map helpers
hput() { 
  eval "$1""$2"='$3'; 
}

hget() { 
  eval echo '${'"$1$2"'#hash}'; 
}

# bulk set
hset() {
  local map=$1; shift;
  while [ ! $# -eq 0 ]; do { hput $map $1 $2; shift 2; } done
}

hset map key1 value1
echo `hget map key1` # value1

hset map2 key1 val1 key2 val2
echo `hget map2 key1` # val1
echo `hget map2 key2` # val2