Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: builtin echo vs /bin/echo appears to affect variable scope Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:58:23 -0500 Lines: 7 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20200302195823.GM845@eeg.ccf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1583179135 9015 209.51.188.17 (2 Mar 2020 19:58:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: Keith Thompson Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Keith Thompson , bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <20200302195823.GM845@eeg.ccf.org> X-Mailman-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15982 On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:54:24AM -0800, Keith Thompson wrote: > /bin/echo hello \ > > BASH_BUG_TEST_$((i++))_$word The redirection happens in the subshell that was created to run the external command.