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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: unable to capture return value using backticks and local
From:       Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case ! edu>
Date:       2006-08-09 19:28:59
Message-ID: 44DA377B.8050903 () case ! edu
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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 statements preceding a command
name -- mostly to avoid double expansion.

Chet
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