Re: declare +attribute in help

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/29/22 2:50 PM, Dennis Williamson wrote:
> In help declare it says:
>
>      Using `+' instead of `-' turns off the given attribute.
>
> In the Bash man page it says:
>
>      Using `+' instead of `-' turns off the attribute instead, with the
> exceptions that +a and +A may not be used  to  destroy  array variables and
> +r will not remove the readonly attribute.
>
> The help text needs to be updated to reflect this limitation. Something
> like:
>
>      Using `+' instead of `-' turns off the given attribute except for a, A
> and r.

Thanks for the report. I'll change this after bash-5.2 is released; I'm not
making more work for the translators when we're already into release
candidates.

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