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Re: Bug or feature: Why does Bash's "printf" define global variables?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Bug or feature: Why does Bash's "printf" define global variables? |
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Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:12:29 +0200 |
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Tim Friske <me@tifr.de> writes:
> my assumption was that Bash's "printf" builtin implicitly defines a local
> variable when used inside a function like so:
Why? A simple assignment doesn't either, and that's what printf does in
the end.
Andreas.
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