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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Mark E. wrote:

> In other words, "foo=bar" isn't peformed until after the command is executed.

Really??  That sounds like a grossly incompatible change in behavior,
and it's bound to break gobs of scripts and Makefiles.  The number of
times I've seen something like the following in a Makefile:

    .txi.dvi:
	    TEXINPUTS=$(srcdir)";"$$TEXINPUTS \
	    MAKEINFO='$(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir)' \
	    $(TEXI2DVI) $<

is enormous.  Now you seem to tell that this won't work with Bash?  If
so, it's something to take up with the Bash maintainers, I think.

However, I'm certain that Bash maintainers would not break all that
code, so I'm quite sure I'm missing something.  But what?