On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 09:05:55AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > Nope, I knew how to correct it (as I showed in the last example), I > just figured the other two should work.
"Work" how? You placed a variable in the TEMPORARY execution ENVIRONMENT of a command. You can tell it's an environment variable by the "-x" in the output of declare. And since it's an environment variable, it is therefore a string variable, because you can't export arrays. And it doesn't persist because it's a TEMPORARY variable. It's just there for the duration of that one command. What are you trying to do?
