bash: declare
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Documented in the 'SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS' section of man bash or here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Builtins.html
#!/bin/bash
function assign {
# -g makes the variable global.
declare -g $1=$2
}
assign my_var 42
echo $my_var