What is an available character for a variable name on bash?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • bash

Issue

  • What is an available character for a variable name on bash?

Resolution

An available character is the following regular expression:

[0-9A-Za-z_]
  • a digit
  • a higher alphabet
  • a lower alphabet
  • "_"

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