On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:47:21 +0200 alex xmb ratchev <fxmb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 00:25 Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > compgen is a useful builtin for inspecting information about the shell > > context e.g. in scripts -- a good example of this is compgen -A function > > or compgen -A variable. > > > > But it's not always available depending on how bash is built, which > > results in people lacking confidence that it can / should be used in > > scripts. See e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/909148 > > > i read kerin s try to parse declare -p > > for me it works .. > > bash-5.2$ { FOO=$'\nBAR BAZ QUUX='; declare -p; } | > while IFS=' =' read -r _ _ name _; do printf '%s\n' "$name"; done | > grep QUUX > bash-5.2$ echo $? > 1 > bash-5.2$ Yes. That's because you're using 5.2, which improves the quoting strategy for declare/typeset. Unfortunately, it's not something that I can rely upon in production (not least, because I can't yet assume that everyone is using bash >=5.2). -- Kerin Millar
