lastpipe (Was: Different variable assignments)

In article <veeag0$786f$2@dont-email.me>,
Lem Novantotto  <Lem@none.invalid> wrote:
...

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.

The key phrase here is "job control is not active".  AFAICT, "lastpipe" (bash)
works in a script, but not interactively.

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