Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]

[Paul Jarc]

elgert@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de (Al Elgert) wrote:
> And now consider this function:
>       bash-2.05$ function fff() { local i=0 x; x=10; echo "|$i|$x|"; }
>       bash-2.05$ fff
>       |0|10|
>       bash-2.05$ x=1 fff
>       |0|10|

This output is correct.  If you want the function to be sensitive to
an environment variable setting, you have to write it that way:
fff() { local i=0 x="${x-10}"; echo "|$i|$x|"; }


paul