locally declared arrays do not act as arrays

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Re: NOT changing global variables

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Frans de Boer wrote: > Yes, I did expected such an answer of using a subshell, and yes I can > get the return value, but I don need it. I need the output fed into > another (maybe local) variable. I was under the impression that BASH was > modeled after 'C'