On 2/23/20 11:36 AM, pepa65 wrote:
> On 23/02/2020 23.27, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 2/21/20 3:31 AM, pepa65 wrote:
>>> By the way, it seems that `local -p var` doesn't work like 'declare -p
>>> var` even though `help local` suggests it should.
>>
>> How so? Do you mean that declare -p var in a function will show different
>> variables?
>
> See this output:
>
> localvsdeclare(){
> local var
> var=42
> unset var
> echo -n '"declare -p var":'
> declare -p var
> echo -n '"local -p var":'
> local -p var
> }
>
> localvsdeclare
> "declare -p var": declare -- var
> "local -p var":
Yes, it's always been this way. This behavior dates to March, 1995,
literally to the time I added `-p'. The reason for not making `local -p'
work the same has been lost to time, so let's try making it the same
and see what happens.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
