From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: local variable assignment and pipelines?
Date: 18 Jul 2003 16:20:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vftz1kxa.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718215801.GB37697@dan.emsphone.com>
Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> writes:
> a=1 | echo $a -> prints "1" on zsh, prints nothing on ash,pdksh,bash
Even more fascinating:
% a=0; b=0; cat < /dev/null | a=1 | b=1 | cat; echo $a $b
1 1
Reassuring:
% a=0; b=0; cat < /dev/null | {a=1; while read i; do echo $i; done} | b=1 | cat; echo $a $b
0 1
Phil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 21:58 Dan Nelson
2003-07-18 23:20 ` Philippe Troin [this message]
2003-07-21 9:59 ` Peter Stephenson
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