Package: bash Version: 3.2-4 Severity: normal $ a=one b=two $ a=three b=$a sh -c 'echo $a $b' three three $ echo $a $b one two $ a=three b=$a sh -c 'echo $a $b' three three $ a=three b=$a sh -c 'echo $a $b' three one $ echo $a $b one two $ echo $BASH_VERSION 3.2.39(1)-release $
Surely the output of "a=three b=$a sh -c 'echo $a $b'" should be the same every time, because the assignments do not appear to have a lasting effect in the outer shell. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 4.0.1 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii debianutils 2.17.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.5-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20070908-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand Note, I compiled all of those packages from Debian sources on this machine. Versions of packages bash recommends: pn bash-completion <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
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