Re: 'local -x VARIABLE' does not clear variable for subprocesses

2014-05-06 Thread Dan Douglas
On Monday, May 05, 2014 11:18:50 AM Chet Ramey wrote: > The idea behind the bash-4.3 behavior is that the placeholder local > variable isn't set, and doesn't really exist. It doesn't shadow a > global variable with the same name until it gets a value. The bash-4.2 > behavior was inconsistent: var

Re: 'local -x VARIABLE' does not clear variable for subprocesses

2014-05-06 Thread Chet Ramey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/5/14, 5:27 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2014-05-05 22:12 Chet Ramey napisa?(a): >>> Ability to locally unset a variable also for subprocesses would be >>> preferable solution. >> >> OK. I'm not sure exactly what this means.