Norman H. Azadian writes: > Huh? That doesn't sound like any shell I've used over the past 25 years, > including bash. The only thing I find in the manpage about variable > scoping is using the local declaration inside functions.
that should be consistently broken over the past 25 years. read .. | while ... done; go on process1 spawned process process1 > If I change the while loop to be a for loop: > > for f in first second ;do > > I get the expected results, namely that the final value is 'second', not > 'initial'. > > It also works if I take out the read, e.g.,: yes, you don't spawn a new shell. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
