[PLUG] BASH Busted??

[Steve Beattie]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:06:36PM -0700, William A Morita wrote:
> According to the documentation on BASH, the shell variables are Global with
> respect to functions.  To have a "local" in a function, it must be declared
> as such.  This is consistent with KSH.  However, the following script does
> not seem to demonstrate this
>  
> #!/bin/bash
> # Script to test "global" variable 
> #
>  
> set -x
>  
> JUNK="Initial Value"
>  
> function SomeFunction
> {
>   set -x
>   JUNK="Set in function"
>   echo $JUNK
> }
>  
> Value="`SomeFunction`"

The backticks are messing you up, they're running SomeFunction in an
entirely seperate process.  Try:

  SomeFunction
  Value=$?

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Steve Beattie
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