Hi all,

consider the following two shell functions:

f1() {
	var=$1
	echo $var
}

f2() {
	local var=$1
	echo $var
}

And the following calls with their respective output:

$ f1 "foo bar"
foo bar

$ f2 "foo bar"
foo

Is this different behavior expected?  I've seen this happens with both /bin/sh
and /bin/ksh, though there is no mention to this in manpages, afaict.
Or should I be quoting assignments, like var="$1", to avoid problems?

Thanks.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/