On 10/25/16 12:40 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> Op 25-10-16 om 00:42 schreef Stuart Shelton:
>> Failing this, is there any alternative to ‘typeset’ to list a
>> variable declared as local to a function but which has not yet been
>> assigned a value?
>
> Try simply testing the exit status of 'typeset -p' or 'declare -p'. If
> the variable is not declared, it exits unsuccessfully.
>
> if typeset -p "$var" >/dev/null 2>&1 && [[ ! -v $var ]]
> then ...
>
> As far as I can tell, this is not documented in 'help' or in the info
> page, by the way. Perhaps it should be.
It's documented. The man page, for instance, says:
"The return value is 0 unless ... one of the names is not a valid shell
variable name"
which handles both the "not correctly formed" and "not found" cases.
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