On 12/13/11 3:13 PM, Dan Douglas wrote: > I imagine this is ok because Bash's declare -p is intended to be human- > readable only, whereas Ksh guarantees -p produces output in a format reusable > as input.
Bash's `declare -p' output is intended to be reusable as input, though the documentation doesn't make that explicit. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/