k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: >A couple of them (including LINENO, obviously) but also RANDOM are >very special, the magic cannot be removed, though it can temporarily >be suspended by unsetting them.
Doesn't POSIX require that the variable is non-magic once set or unset
for the lifetime of the shell?
N.B. that would also be my preferred handling of all such variables.
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