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I found the following issue by simply increasing a variable. The ((A++)) expression returns an error, the other expressions both return 0. Does anyone know why?
script.sh:
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A=0
B=0
C=0
((A++)) ; echo "${?}"
((B=B+1)) ; echo "${?}"
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