On Sun, Jan 26, 2025, at 5:40 PM, Pete Edwards wrote: > The set command executed should list the shell variables and values, > which > it does, but it is followed by other text, which looks like script text > that has no purpose in the output expectred.
The `set' built-in is documented to print both variables and functions (when not in POSIX mode). https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Set-Builtin.html > Sample set command output > ACLOCAL_PATH=/clangarm64/share/aclocal:/usr/share/aclocal > ALLUSERSPROFILE='C:\ProgramData' > APPDATA='C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming' > > [...] > > WIN_ROOT=/c/Windows > XDG_DATA_DIRS=/clangarm64/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ > ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN=1 Variables with names beginning with uppercase letters. > _=pwd > _backup_glob='@(#*#|*@(~|.@(bak|orig|rej|swp|@(dpkg|ucf)-*|rpm@ > (orig|new|save))))' > _comp_backup_glob='@(#*#|*@(~|.@(bak|orig|rej|swp|@(dpkg|ucf)-*|rpm@ > (orig|new|save))))' > _comp_dequote__regex_safe_word='^([^\'\''"$`;&|<>()!]|\\.|'\''[^'\'']*'\''|\$?"([^\"$`!]|\$([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*|[-*@#?$!0-9_])|\$\{[!#]?([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*(\[([0-9]+|[*@])\])?|[-*@#?$!0-9_])\}|\\.)*"|\$'\''([^\'\'']|\\.)*'\''|\$([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*|[-*@#?$!0-9_])|\$\{[!#]?([_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*(\[([0-9]+|[*@])\])?|[-*@#?$!0-9_])\})*$' Variables with names beginning with underscores. > _comp_xspecs=([tex]="!*.@(?(la)tex|texi|dtx|ins|ltx|dbj)" > [freeamp]="!*.@(mp3|ogg|pls|m3u)" [gqmpeg]="!*.@(mp3|ogg|pls|m3u)" > [texi2html]="!*.texi*" [hbpp]="!*.@([Pp][Rr][Gg]|[Cc][Ll][Pp])" > > [...] > > [slitex]="!*.@(?(la)tex|texi|dtx|ins|ltx|dbj)" > [aaxine]="!*@(.@(mp?(e)g|MP?(E)G|wm[av]|WM[AV]|avi|AVI|asf|vob|VOB|bin|dat|divx|DIVX|vcd|ps|pes|fli|flv|FLV|fxm|FXM|viv|rm|ram|yuv|mov|MOV|qt|QT|web[am]|WEB[AM]|mp[234]|MP[234]|m?(p)4[av]|M?(P)4[AV]|mkv|MKV|og[agmv]|OG[AGMV]|t[ps]|T[PS]|m2t?(s)|M2T?(S)|mts|MTS|wav|WAV|flac|FLAC|asx|ASX|mng|MNG|srt|m[eo]d|M[EO]D|s[3t]m|S[3T]M|it|IT|xm|XM)|+([0-9]).@(vdr|VDR))?(.@(crdownload|part))" > [advi]="!*.dvi" [lzmore]="!*.@(tlz|lzma)" ) One very long associative array. > postinst=/etc/post-install/07-pacman-key.post Variables (in this case, *a* variable) with names beginning with lowercase letters. > __expand_tilde_by_ref () > { > [[ -n ${1+set} ]] || return 0; > [[ $1 == REPLY ]] || local REPLY; > _comp_expand_tilde "${!1-}"; > [[ $1 == REPLY ]] || printf -v "$1" "$REPLY" > } > > [...] > > quote_readline () > { > local REPLY; > _comp_quote_compgen "$1"; > printf %s "$REPLY" > } The aforementioned functions. > This stuff looks to be an artifact of a bug Again, this behavior is documented. It is not a bug. > and results in data at the end > of the output that is not part of the expected key value list and > therefore makes it harder to parse the shell variables and values. You might try POSIX mode, or `declare -p` without arguments. Others will offer more suggestions, I'm sure. -- vq
