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.

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