On 12/11/22 9:37 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
This is mostly a 'nit', but I noticed I had
"typeset -xr"
in one of my scripts to mean export+read-only and
was wondering why
"export -r"
was disallowed (err message):
bash: export: -r: invalid option
export: usage: export [-fn] [name[=value] ...] or export -p
This seems to be an unnecessary "make-wrong", no?
No. There's no compelling reason to provide it. You can already do this,
as you discovered, using a builtin whose purpose is to assign attributes
to variables.
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