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  Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2020-01-29 09:45 -0500

#15837 — Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

On 1/29/20 9:23 AM, 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.

As long as you use mixed case. There are two lowercase shell variables
bash looks at: auto_resume and histchars.


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