Norman H. Azadian writes:
> Huh? That doesn't sound like any shell I've used over the past 25 years,
> including bash. The only thing I find in the manpage about variable
> scoping is using the local declaration inside functions.
that should be consistently broken over the past 25 years.
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Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:29:14 +0100 (MET)
From: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The following script illustrates the problem:
#!/bin/sh
val=initial
cat <<-EOF | while read ;do
first line
second line
EOF
val=$REPLY
echo "val is '
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