Mike Frysinger wrote:
> not sure if this is a bug or feature ... take this little snippet:
> testit() {
> local foo=$(false) ; echo $?
> foo=$(false) ; echo $?
> }
>
> when we run the code, the output is:
> 0
> 1
>
> rather than intuitive:
> 1
> 1
It's intentional.
`local' returns success if the variable is correctly assigned a value
(for instance, the variable is not read-only). The assignment statement
returns failure because that's how POSIX says assignment statements
behave. (export and readonly behave the same way as local.)
Chet
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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