Re: Namespace problem with pipe into a braced group

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/23/10 4:23 AM, t...@icada.com wrote:

> Description:
>       I would have expected the output to be 2 in both cases.  My mistake or 
> yours?  :-)
> 
> Repeat-By:
>       a=1; echo foo;{ a=2; }; echo $a         # output: 2
>       a=1; echo foo|{ a=2; }; echo $a         # output: 1

Yours.  Please read the Bash FAQ, question E4.


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