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. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com/> =========================== Author: =============================== Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux shell (2009, Apress)