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| From: | Paul Jarc |
| Subject: | Re: Assigning variable value in right behalf of pipeline has no effect |
| Date: | Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:09:57 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
xandrous@gmail.com wrote:
> XXX=10; { XXX=20; } | read; echo $XXX
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> XXX=10; { XXX=20; }; echo $XXX
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> I suppose both of them should output '20' but the first one outputs
> '10'. Is it feature of bug?
This is normal. It's explained in entry E4 in the bash FAQ.
paul
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