Re: bash manual

[V. Mark Lehky]

Hi,

I can't find this text in my manual. Is there a more recent version somewhere 
than <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html>?

So, since 'export -f' apparently does the same thing as 'declare -xf', I'm just 
wondering why have two commands do the same thing? Or did I interpret that wrong?

Thanx, VML.


Chet Ramey wrote:
> V. Mark Lehky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is in reference to "Edition 2.5b, last updated 15 July 2002, of The
> > GNU Bash Reference Manual".
> >
> > Please, please, please, for the sake of future generations, make the
> > following addition in two spots in the next release of the manual. I
> > just spent like three hours hunting this down:
>
> I think the existing text in the Shell Functions section is OK:
>
> Functions may be exported so that subshells
> automatically have them defined with the -f
> option to the export builtin.
> Note that shell functions and variables with the same name may result
> in multiple identically-named entries in the environment passed to the
> shell's children.
> Care should be taken in cases where this may cause a problem.
>
> Chet