Re: test -v for array does not work as documented

From	pepa65 <solusos@passchier.net>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: test -v for array does not work as documented
Date	2020-02-23 23:36 +0700
Message-ID	<mailman.1447.1582475792.2412.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 23/02/2020 23.27, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/21/20 3:31 AM, pepa65 wrote:
>> By the way, it seems that `local -p var` doesn't work like 'declare -p
>> var` even though `help local` suggests it should.
> 
> How so? Do you mean that declare -p var in a function will show different
> variables?

See this output:

localvsdeclare(){
  local var
  var=42
  unset var
  echo -n '"declare -p var":'
  declare -p var
  echo -n '"local -p var":'
  local -p var
}

localvsdeclare
"declare -p var": declare -- var
"local -p var":

Peter

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