Re: unable to capture return value using backticks and local

[Paul Jarc]

"Adam Monsen" <haircut@gmail.com> wrote:
> foo()
> {
>    local TICKED=`false`
>    echo RV: $?
> }
>
> foo
> # prints "RV: 0", but I would expect "RV: 1"

You get 0 here because that's the status from the "local" command.  To
get the status from a backtick command, you need the assignment to be
alone, not part of another command:
foo()
{
  local TICKED
  TICKED=`false`
  echo RV: $?
}


paul