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Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion

From: Chris F.A. Johnson
Subject: Re: Preventing Bash Variable Confusion
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:37:23 -0500 (EST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) 
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.

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