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Re: [Help-bash] make function local
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] make function local |
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Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:32:40 -0400 |
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On 4/9/15 1:05 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> 3. Whoever ends up implementing this could have better spent their time
> adding the sorely needed `shopt' option that localizes options so
> that scripts
> don't have to. ;-)
The 4.4 devel branch includes a feature from NetBSD's sh that allows the
single-letter options to be saved and restored during a shell function's
execution using `local -'.
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