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  Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com> - 2020-01-29 09:37 -0500

#15836 — Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

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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