On Sun, 2017-01-01 at 12:40 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I investigated a bit more and > found > out that it relates to the use of "local". See e.g. > http://superuser.com/questions/363444/how-do-i-get-the-output-and-exi > t-value-of-a-subshell-when-using-bash-e/1103711#1103711 > for an explanation. How exciting! > Fortunately this is easy enough to work around. Great! Ian.