On May 28, 2013, at 7:00 AM, Ryan Stone <ryst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Václav Zeman <vhais...@gmail.com> wrote: > Curious. Which of the two behaviours is POSIXly correct? > > I believe that /bin/sh's behaviour is correct. I don't know what shell the > manpage is referring to, but it's not bash (bash does the same thing in a > pipeline). Perhaps it's referring to csh? If that is the case that line is > probably causing more confusion rather than alleviating it.
I believe it's referring to csh, possible ksh as well. I tried a similar experiment with tcsh: #!/bin/tcsh alias fn set var=12 set var= echo $var yes | fn echo $var _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
