Re: Different variable assignments

Il Sat, 12 Oct 2024 17:57:16 +0200, Frank Winkler ha scritto:

I think you're right. But why doesn't it work in ksh?

Uhm... It should work. Here it works, at least.

And sometimes something like that *may* work in bash, too, provided
we set:
$ shopt -s lastpipe

But my command doesn't work instead, in bash. That's why:

| lastpipe
| If set, and job control is not active, the shell runs the last command
| of a pipeline not executed in the background in the current shell
| environment.
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Bye, Lem