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  Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com> - 2020-01-30 12:02 -0500

#15856 — Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

On Wed, 29 Jan 2020, Chet Ramey wrote:

> 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'.

There are other things wrong in that book as well; the description of
printf, for example.

Don't use it as an authority on bash.

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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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