On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:42 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > Then this is a departure from original/standard System V > behaviour. Again, all System V based Unixes I have programmed > under did have this behaviour. > > Anyone converting scritps (as I had to do) will run into > this problem/behaviour. > BTW, On AIX when I tried using bash I had the same effect as I did on Linux. When I tried it with ksh the results were as you obviously expected. The subshell for the cat command was able to modify the values of the variable in the parent. > > > --- Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:15:21AM -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > > > > This seems to be a Linux issue with the shells. > > > > It is correct behaviour, and POSIX-compliant to boot. > > > > Please see the bash FAQ, question E4. > > > > /usr/share/doc/bash-3.0/FAQ > > > > Tim. > > */ > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
