Re: Race in bash-4.3 'typeset'?

[Martijn Dekker]

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.

Also note that, while zsh and yash share this behaviour, ksh93 and
mksh/pdksh do not. If you want to be compatible with all the shells that
support 'typeset', you could do:

    if [ -n "$(typeset -p "$var" 2>/dev/null)" ] &&
       eval "[ -z \"\${var+s}\" ]"
    then ...

which is slower because it uses a subshell.

HTH,

- M.