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From: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setvar MIA?
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:54:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2C8B2C.3060001@phat.za.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2C810E.4070707@redhat.com>

Hi,

On 01/11/11 18:10, Eric Blake wrote:
> Decidedly missing.  POSIX doesn't require it.  Neither bash nor ksh
> provides setvar as a builtin, either.  And what does setvar do anyways?
>   Perhaps it is some alias or shell function that you have inherited from
> startup files in one of your other shells, but I've never heard of a
> 'setvar' program.  So why bloat dash to include it?

It is a builtin in FreeBSD's Bourne shell:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sh&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html

I wasn't sure of its status in POSIX.  It is useful for declaring 
variable variables - tidier than eval and I imagine faster, eg.

index="1"
setvar var_${index} "value"

Will emulate it with a local function - thanks.


Regards,
Aragon

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 15:54 setvar MIA? Aragon Gouveia
2011-01-11 16:10 ` Eric Blake
2011-01-11 16:54   ` Aragon Gouveia [this message]
2011-01-11 17:00     ` Eric Blake
2011-01-11 19:58       ` Jilles Tjoelker

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