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Re: simple question regarding local variables

Actually this is a simple question about sourcing.

On Sep 19,  9:23am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} sourcing I understand to create a child shell

No, sourcing explicitly does NOT create a child shell; "source" *means*
to execute the commands in the current shell.  Running a script by its
name without sourcing is what creates a child shell.
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