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local readonly foo=3
readonly export bar=4

local foo=3
readonly foo

readonly bar=4
export bar

or

declare -r foo=3
declare -rx bar=4

In most languages, declaration modifiers like public/static/const are keywords and you can apply multiple to any declaration.

In shell scripting they are instead command names, and anything after them is an argument. This means that readonly local foo will create two readonly variables: local, and foo. Neither will be local.

Instead, either use multiple commands, or use a single declare command with appropriate flags (declare will automatically make a variable local when invoked in a function, unless -g is passed to explicitly make it global).

If you want to name your variable local, you can quote it as in readonly "local" to make your intention clear to ShellCheck and other humans.

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