Adam Monsen wrote:
> I was incorrectly interpreting 'local' to be a modifier rather than a
> separate builtin.
It may be that someday. The shell already does a few things to try to
make assignment statement arguments to those builtins (local, declare,
export, readonly) more like assignment state
On 8/8/06, Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
It is expected and documented. `local' is a builtin command that returns
a 0 status if the assignment is performed.
[...]
Understood, thanks Chet.
Also, thank you Paul for the workaround.
I was incorrectly interpreting 'local' to be a mo