On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 4:03:46 PM CEST Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Pavel Raiskup dixit: > > >ShellCheck dislikes unused variables in 'read unused_var', rather > >use 'read _'. > > That’s bad advice. It’s better to name the fields, > even if the variables themselves may be unused, to > easen later maintenance.
Since you've sent a general statement, I disagree *in general* -- in later maintenance you might very easily get into situation that the very same variable is used in different context, and then you have the variable _predefined_ unintentionally by by 'read'. That's why I consider that warning to be useful, and why I usually want to be friendly to ShellCheck. Speaking concretely, the 'xzmore' doesn't pollute variable namespace since it's enclosed in $(...), so it's safe and I'm fine to ignore that. The proposed fix would really only be about making the output from static analysis a bit more useful/readable (btw. ditto for the second issue). Pavel
