On Feb 17 2019, Dennis Williamson <dennistwilliam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, interesting! In Bash 4 and 5, I just did declare -p with no args and it > showed BASH_ALIASES empty. But with declare -p BASH_ALIASES it shows the > contents (as does the alias command). > > Other arrays that show this difference for me: > > BASH_CMDS > DIRSTACK > GROUPS > > Scalars that exhibit this issue: > > BASHPID > BASH_COMMAND > BASH_SUBSHELL > COMP_WORDBREAKS > HISTCMD > LINENO > RANDOM > SECONDS All these dynamic variables are displayed with values by declare -p after the variable is accessed once. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
