On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > Francis Moreau <francis.m...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The help of 'local' is rather obscure about the description on its return >> value: >> >> Returns success unless an invalid option is supplied, an >> error occurs, or the shell is not executing a function. >> >> "an error occurs" is rather meaningless IMHO. > > See the manual for an alternative description: > > The return status is zero unless `local' is used outside a > function, an invalid NAME is supplied, or NAME is a readonly > variable. >
I see thanks. Somehow I thought that help(1) would have given nothing more nothing less than what was described in the manual. -- Francis
