Re: POSIX shell clarification

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> wrote:
> (I'm not sure where to send this, but it's of interest for making
> packages containing shell scripts policy-compliant, which I'm currently
> trying to do, so...)
> 
> bash and dash differ in their handling of variable assignments. To wit:
> 
>  bash$ FOO=$(false) || echo failed
>  failed
> 
>  dash$ FOO=$(false) && echo worked
>  worked

This is definitely a (recent) bug in dash.
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