Can't set variables in a while loop that is passed to the rest of the script.

[Thomas Wolff]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Damo, David on 1/14/2010 3:39 PM:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a script that worked on UNIX, but on Cygwin it does not work. When I set a variable in a while loop I can't use it after the loop. However, this worked in UNIX. Any ideas why?
>>      
> Yes.  ksh vs. bash.  http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/FAQ, E4.  Not
> cygwin-specific.
>    
As was responded before, this isn't supposed to work in a pipe. Not in 
ksh either, I think, and I tried it, with ksh on a Sun and pdksh on cygwin.
So I don't think this is a ksh vs bash issue.
David, maybe you happened to have set the variable you checked before 
callling the script already?
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Thomas

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