"Adam Monsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> foo()
> {
> local TICKED=`false`
> echo RV: $?
> }
>
> foo
> # prints "RV: 0", but I would expect "RV: 1"
You get 0 here because that's the status from the "local" command. To
get the status from a backtick command, you need the assignment to be
alone, not part of another command:
foo()
{
local TICKED
TICKED=`false`
echo RV: $?
}
paul
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