Re: How to test if a variable is declared?

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:25 AM John McKown <address@hidden>
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 9:01 AM Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> I am trying to use bash efficiently. I am not saying that I have seen CPU
>> as a concern in a real application. But I want to avoid the
>> do-something-then-discard-it approach as much as possible. Sometimes, a
>> solution can be found in bash. Sometimes, it can’t be done as in this case
>> at this moment. Either way is fine with me. But I need to know where the
>> limit is of bash.
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>> For this specific case, I don’t think that bash could not support it.
>> After
>> all, it could be supported for example by adding a new switch to [[.
>>
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> Or maybe a "-q" (for quiet) or "-s" (for silent) as a "suboption" for
> declare -p (declare -pq variable) so that it only sets $?
>

That also could be a possibility.


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Regards,
Peng