On 8/30/23 8:40 AM, queency3 jones wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 3
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> function sub { aa=8;return_value=$aa; }
> function sub { aa=8; }
>
> function main { aa=3;sub;aa=$(($aa+1));printf "$aa\n"; }
>
>
> calling main will print 9 instead of 4
What behavior do you expect and why? The bash behavior is correct, since
you have no local variables and all functions share the global variable
`aa' and its value.
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