On 3/8/18 2:51 PM, GreatBigDot wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 19 > Release Status: release > > Description: > If you try to turn a nameref back a regular variable with > 'declare -n' but the nameref is pointing to an undeclared variable, the > nameref remains a nameref, and the variable it points to is declared > (but remians unset).
Thanks for the report. This is a bug: the code neglected to remove the nameref attribute from `foo' before tying to modify the attributes of the referenced variable (`bar'). It will be fixed in the next devel snapshot. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/