Re: Bash bug

[Clark Wang]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Weshakie Löwe <weshakie@gmail.com> wrote:

When storing the value of code executed in a subshell the return value is always 0 if the variable is local.

Code example:

A(){
 local return_value="$(bash -c "exit 1")"
 echo $?
}

function A: returns 0 - even though obviously the return value is 1.

``local'' itself is a command. So ``local var=value'' would usually return 0 because it _successfully_ assigns the value the the var. ``local'' would return non-zero when there's something wrong with the syntax. For example ``local invalid.var.name'' or ``readonly var=1; local var=2''.

 

B(){
 return_value="$(bash -c "exit 1")"
 echo $?
}

function B: returns 1 - as expected, the only difference to function A being not using a local variable to store the value.

Without ``local'', the value of $? would be changed by the $(...) part in the assignment.

-clark

Best regards,

A happy bash user