Package: ksh
Version: 93s+20080202-1
Severity: normal
On a powerpc or an i386 machine, I do:
% echo $XXX
% XXX="hello" /bin/echo $XXX
% (export XXX; XXX="hello"; /bin/echo $XXX)
hello
%
%
The manual states:
The environment for any simple-command or function may be augmented by
prefixing
it with one or more variable assignments. A variable assignment argument
is a
word of the form identifier=value. Thus:
TERM=450 cmd args and
(export TERM; TERM=450; cmd args)
are equivalent (as far as the above execution of cmd is concerned except for
spe‐
cial built-in commands listed below - those that are preceded with a dagger).
..... end of manual passage......
Admittedly, it seems odd that something as common as the above feature should
not be
working, at this facility on multiple lenny installs and a squeeze install, and
not
be flagged by a host of other users. It makes me think that it is something
with the
local setup. However, even if I set up a new account, the same "error" happens.
The
same thing happens with bash too.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ksh depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ksh recommends no packages.
ksh suggests no packages.
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