On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:16:53PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Here is another, as I seem to have managed to kill another one ;-)
> >
> > -- >8 --
> >
> > "VAR=VAL command" is sufficient to run 'command' with environment
> > variable VAR set to value VAL without affecting the environment of
> > the shell itself, but we cannot do the same with a shell function
> > (most notably, "test_must_fail");
>
> No? bash:
>
> dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ zippo()
> > {
> > echo $XXX
> > echo $XXX
> > }
> dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ XXX=8 zippo
> 8
> 8
Try:
zippo() {
echo $XXX
}
XXX=8 zippo
zippo
XXX remains set after the first call under dash (but not bash). I
believe "ash" has the same behavior.
-Peff
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