Re: bash variable names do not comply w/POSIX character set rules

2015-12-06 Thread Linda Walsh
Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote: This definition ( http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_230 ) states: 3.230 Name In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character s

Re: bash variable names do not comply w/POSIX character set rules

2015-12-06 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
This definition ( http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_230 ) states: 3.230 Name In the shell command language, a word consisting solely of underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character set. The first character of a name is not a

bash variable names do not comply w/POSIX character set rules

2015-12-05 Thread Linda Walsh
Under section 2.5.3, Shell Variables, it mentions: LC_CTYPE Determine the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters), which characters are defined as letters (character class alpha) and characters (chara