On 12/13/2009 04:22 PM, Ray Parrish wrote: ... > > Does anyone have any light they can shed on the behavior of global > variables in Bash? > > Thanks, Ray Parrish > Perhaps these will help: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_03_02.html