Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

From	"Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion
Date	2020-01-29 09:37 -0500
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> As long as you use at least one lowercase letter in your variable name,
> you are guaranteed not to conflict with any internal shell variables.

    Except for auto_resume and histchars.

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    Chris F.A. Johnson                         <http://cfajohnson.com/>
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    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
    Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux shell (2009, Apress)

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