On 11/13/24 5:12 PM, Yuri wrote:
On 11/13/24 14:02, Greg Wooledge wrote:The commands within a pipeline are executed in subshells (child processes), so all variable changes are discarded when the subshell exits.This sounds like an implementation detail that should be invisible that affects how the 'source' feature works.
You might consider it an implementation detail, but it's how shells work.
This makes it a very confusing from the user's perspective.
I think people are pretty much used to it.
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