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Re: sh portability questions


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: sh portability questions
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:04:26 +0200
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Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

> if (local foo) >/dev/null 2>&1; then :; else
>   local () { true;  }
> fi

Note that local is only valid in function context, so this will always
produce a failure.

Andreas.

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