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Re: [Help-bash] What was the reason to give declare its name?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] What was the reason to give declare its name? |
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Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:24:07 -0800 |
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On 11/30/16 4:48 PM, D630 wrote:
> I have been reading a lot about early shell history these days. Can you
> remeber, how the built-in command 'declare' got its name? What was the
> rationale behind it?
It was originally intended to be compatible with the ksh (ksh88 at the
time) `typeset', with the same semantics, but `declare' was a more
descriptive name. "declare variables and give them attributes".
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/