Re: declare -p name=value thinks 'name=value' is variable

[Eli Schwartz]

On 1/8/21 4:05 AM, William Park wrote:
> Another issue I came across.
>
>      declare -p name=value
>
> thinks 'name=value' is the variable.  My reading of manpage seems to say
> 'name' should be used, but not sure.  Is this a bug?
>
> Workaround is, of course, use separate lines,
>      declare name=value
>      declare -p name

There's an obvious inference here, that declare -p only prints, does not 
create/modify, and only accepts NAMEs, therefore the optional [=VALUE] 
available to other modes will not be interpreted the way you seem to 
think it will be, in *this* mode.

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Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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