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List of shells that support `local` keyword for defining local variables

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I know that Bash and Zsh support local variables, but there are systems only have POSIX-compatible shells. And local is undefined in POSIX shells. So I want to ask which shells support local keyword for defining local variables? **Edit**: About shells I mean the default /bin/sh shell.
Asked by mja (1525 rep)
Jan 10, 2019, 02:13 PM
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