> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 02:24:11PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: >On 1/29/20 2:05 PM, Roger wrote: > >> "Linux Shell Scripting with Bash." (Burtch) suggested using declare instead >> of >> local, due to local lacking the other switches declare provides. p262 (eg. >> declare can specify type of variable, such as integar only.) > > `local' accepts the same option set as `declare'.
Got it. $ man bash -> builtin local: "The (local) option can be any of the options accepted by declare." -- Roger http://rogerx.sdf.org/