Re: About the "nameref" feature in bash...

On 08.12.2024 15:41, Kenny McCormack wrote:

In article <vj48k5$3r1bq$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 08.12.2024 13:51, Kenny McCormack wrote:

Bash has a "nameref" attribute on variables,

>
Is that a newer feature of bash? (My version doesn't support -n with
'local' or with 'declare'.) My response is based on the ksh feature.
The underlying ideas of the feature might be reflected in both shells
in similar ways.

 
I think I read somewhere that it came in at bash 4.3 (c. 2014/2015) - which
is rather old now.  So, I wouldn't call it "new".

Yeah - "newer" is a very subjective and context specific term.

It's my [deliberately frozen] standard box I use regularly that
is still running bash 2.4; so some, erm.., "newer" features of
bash I cannot test [on that system] (without manual changes).
I see a downloaded "bash 5.0" package lying around on the file
system (not installed), but that's it. :-)

Janis