Why does “local” sweep the return code of a comman

问题:

This Bash snippet works as I would\'ve expected:

$ fun1() { x=$(false); echo \"exit code: $?\"; }
$ fun1
exit code: 1

But this one, using local, does not:

$ fun2() { local x=$(false); echo \"exit code: $?\"; }
$ fun2
exit code: 0

Can anyone explain why does local sweep the return code of the command?

回答1:

The reason the code with local returns 0 is because $? \"Expands to the exit status of the most recently executed foreground pipeline.\" Thus $? is returning the success of local

You can fix this behavior by separating the declaration of x from the initialization of x like so:

$ fun() { local x; x=$(false); echo \"exit code: $?\"; }; fun
exit code: 1

回答2:

The return code of the local command obscures the return code of false