On 11/7/17 11:20 PM, Clark Wang wrote:
> For now the `declare' command is under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS in the man
> page so people may think bash parses the command line parameters the same
> way as other built-in commands which is not true.
Only assignment statements, as described in the manual page:
"Assignment statements may also appear as arguments to the alias,
declare, typeset, export, readonly, and local builtin commands
(declaration commands)."
in the section describing how assignment statements are expanded.
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