From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: contrib/completion/git-completion.bash: declare -g is not portable
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:51:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgg9g8cr.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e618c0c-81ba-fa7e-8039-748bdfa5a6d9@web.de> ("Torsten Bögershausen"'s message of "Sat, 3 Feb 2018 18:20:18 +0100")
On Feb 03 2018, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> What is "declare -g" good for ?
-g create global variables when used in a shell function; otherwise
ignored
When used in a function, `declare' makes NAMEs local, as with the `local'
command. The `-g' option suppresses this behavior.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-03 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-03 17:20 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash: declare -g is not portable Torsten Bögershausen
2018-02-03 19:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2018-02-03 20:22 ` Jeff King
2018-02-04 9:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-02-04 9:57 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-02-04 11:48 ` Lucas Werkmeister
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