Michael Rendell wrote: > Bash Version: 3.2 > Patch Level: 25 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Declaring a variable as local appears to prevent $? from being set; > see script below.
`local' is a builtin command; you asked for and received its exit status. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/