On 7/24/20 2:25 AM, Grisha Levit wrote: > Having IGNOREEOF defined prior to invoking a function that uses `local -' > causes IGNOREEOF to be set to `10' after the function returns. > > $ IGNOREEOF=0; f() { local -; }; f; echo $IGNOREEOF > 10
Yes, that's the default. `local -' saves the state of the option, not the value of those options backed by variables (which just doesn't scale well). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/