Charles Plessy wrote:
Hello everybody,
In one of the packages I maintain, building fails when the default shell is
/bin/dash because of an “export -n” command that was not found by checkbashisms
(probably because it was hidden in a Perl script).
I would like to send a patch Upstream, but have not found a drop-in replacement
for this command, apart from someghing ugly like:
BAR=$FOO ; unset FOO ; FOO=$BAR ; unset BAR
to replace ‘export -n FOO’.
Any idea ?
Have a nice day,
There really doesn't seem to be a way. I can only suggest:
* bolt those comands up into an "unexport" function (not pretty;
make your "BAR" local and you don't need to subsequently
unset it)
* perhaps you can run the commands needing the exported variable
in a subshell? (see under "Grouping Commands Together" in the
man page). If you export anything in a subshell, it won't be
reflected in the "main" shell, but beware, nor will any other
shell builtin take effect. (Potentially also not pretty, and/or
a lot of work rewriting)
HTH, or you get a better suggestion ;)
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Chris Jackson
Shadowcat Systems Ltd.
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