What is the helper refering to when it says "For each NAME"?

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I was looking at how to unset an exported variable en bash and came accross this.

An answer contains the unset command. Doing a little unset --help to check what's available and its description.

$ unset --help
unset: unset [-f] [-v] [-n] [name ...]
    Unset values and attributes of shell variables and functions.

    For each NAME, remove the corresponding variable or function.

What is a NAME in "For each NAME" ? What is it refering to ?

Those are the names of the variables and functions you want to unset. — Barmar, Jun 28 '21 at 14:37
@Barmar Hooo. Ok. I though it was something else. As Roadowl, the mixing of lower and uppercase confused me. — Itération 122442, Jun 28 '21 at 14:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 29 '21 at 14:46

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It refers to the name parameters in the syntax line. So they're the names of the variables that are being unset.

It uses uppercase to highlight the word in the sentence, similar to the way man pages use fonts or inverse coloring to highlight keywords.

answered Jun 29 '21 at 14:46

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What is the helper refering to when it says "For each NAME"?

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