command substitution fails with PS1 and multiline in one case

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Bug or feature: Why does Bash's "printf" define global variables?

Hi, my assumption was that Bash's "printf" builtin implicitly defines a local variable when used inside a function like so: function foobar { printf -v foo bar; } foobar declare -p foo # Prints "bar" from the global "foo" variable. But instead I have to declare the "foo" variable

Re: Bug or feature: Why does Bash's "printf" define global variables?

Tim Friske writes: > my assumption was that Bash's "printf" builtin implicitly defines a local > variable when used inside a function like so: Why? A simple assignment doesn't either, and that's what printf does in the end. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprin