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Re: Claim `declare' as a special command in manual?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Claim `declare' as a special command in manual?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:05:11 -0500
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On 11/8/17 8:48 AM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:

> As a side note, this special treatment does lead to some weirdness around
> shadowing assignment builtins with functions, or using them with the `builtin'
> builtin:

Yes, the `builtin' builtin removes the special treatment. Only the command
builtin, when in posix mode, preserves the declaration command status for
the command following it. This is also documented.


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