[opensuse] BASH - I give up : (

Listmates,

Stuck on a stupid bash problem again. Why can't I set a variable within a set
of parenthesis?

#!/bin/bash

# This works

[[ $1 == "--verbose" || $1 == "-v" ]] && verbose='y'

[[ $1 == "--verbose" || $1 == "-v" ]] && ( echo "this"; echo "that" )

# This _doesn't_ work

[[ $1 == "--verbose" || $1 == "-v" ]] && ( verbose='y'; echo "that" )


No matter what I do, if I try to set a variable inside the ( ) expression, it
never gets set -- Why?



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