On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <deja...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >> Why? It seems "typeset" is the POSIX thing, while "local" is a BASH-ism. So >> what's wrong with local variables? > > local is almost certainly not a bashism. At least I can recall > once changing typeset to local in some RA.
IIRC, then "local foo=bar" is a bashism, whereas "local foo; foo=bar" is POSIX compliant. At least that's what checkbashisms seems to indicate. Cheers, Florian -- Need help with High Availability? http://www.hastexo.com/now _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems