On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:58:21AM +0300, Pierre Gaston wrote: [...] > With "sh" (a posix shell) no > In bash you can use the builtin "local" (or declare). [...]
See http://stchaz.free.fr/locvar.sh for one way to implement local scope in a POSIX script. (those functions have not been thoroughly tested, they were just written as a proof of concept, but you get the idea). -- Stéphane
