Re: Ability to display parameters as global with `declare -gp`

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/11/23 10:01 AM, Albert Akchurin wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
>
> Patch Level: 21
>
> Release Status: release
>
>
> Description:
>
>         `declare -p` loses the global flag passed to variable/array on
> definition.
>
>         I think this behaviour is reasonable, but sometimes I need to
> save/restore
>
>         Global variables in the function. Unfortunately when I source saved
>
>         variables from a function the variables are scoped to that function.
>
>         Could you please add the ability to display all the variables as
> global
>
>         when using '-g' along with '-p' option? No internal checks needed,
> just
>
>         Put the '-g' flag when displaying each variable definition requested.

I will consider this for a future version.

Chet

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