> or maybe enclosing the statement in braces (something like: {foo=bar; echo $foo}...) to delimit temporary assignments As long as you don't need to get anythi

> or maybe enclosing the statement in braces (something like: {foo=bar; echo $foo}...) to delimit temporary assignments As long as you don't need to get anything out of it, it's a bit heavy but dropping to a subshell works like that: $ (foo=bar; echo $foo) bar $ echo $foo