Re: unset does not act as expected on namerefs

[Chet Ramey]

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On 5/26/15 10:31 AM, Shawn Wilson wrote:
> swilson@swlap1:~/temp$ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> swilson@swlap1:~/temp$ cat t.txt 
> $ome text !n a file|
> swilson@swlap1:~/temp$ unset t
> swilson@swlap1:~/temp$ t=$(< ./t.txt)
> swilson@swlap1:~/temp$ echo "$t"
> bash: $ome text !n a file|: invalid variable name for name reference

This is pretty obviously not the entire story, since you've never assigned
`t' the nameref attribute.  If you run `declare -n t' after the unset,
you'll see that error, but your transcript doesn't show you doing that.

If you can show me a complete transcript I can tell you what's happening.
It may be that you've discovered a bug, but it's hard to say.

Chet

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