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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fail to expand/assigned subshell output into a local variable
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:07:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711081707.17944.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)

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this code snippet incorrectly fails under dash:
$ { local f=$(date); }
local: 5: 8: bad variable name
-mike

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-08 22:07 Mike Frysinger [this message]
2007-11-08 22:27 ` fail to expand/assigned subshell output into a local variable Oleg Verych
2007-11-08 23:01   ` Oleg Verych

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