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  Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion Roger <rogerx.oss@gmail.com> - 2020-01-29 15:26 -0500

#15850 — Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 02:24:11PM -0500, 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.)
>
> `local' accepts the same option set as `declare'.

Got it.

$ man bash -> builtin local: "The (local) option can be any of the options 
accepted by declare."


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Roger
http://rogerx.sdf.org/

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