On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 15:11 +0000, Read, James C wrote:
> > What I don't really understand is how this then causes variables to
> go out of scope.

Because when you write "name=value command", $name is set only for the
command it prefixes. And && separates multiple commands.

Simon.

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