Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion
Date	2020-01-29 14:24 -0500
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On 1/29/20 2:05 PM, Roger wrote:

> "Linux Shell Scripting with Bash." (Burtch) suggested using declare instead of 
> local, due to local lacking the other switches declare provides. p262 (eg.  
> declare can specify type of variable, such as integar only.)

This is just wrong. `local' accepts the same option set as `declare'.


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