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Re: bin/47597: local and $() don't play well with each other



Hello,

tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
 |built-in utilities": what means "with" ? It seems at least that:
 |
 |export VAR=value
 |
 |sets and exports. There is no obligation to interpret this as

This is not portable to some (old) shells.

When dealing with shell compatibility i always find that [1] is
interesting and helpful.  It (yet) doesn't have a special page for
this very problem, but, just in case you're curious.

[1] <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/>
[2] <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/>
[3] <http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/ash/>

--steffen


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