Re: effect of assignment to a shell variable inside while list is lost outside list

[Paul Jarc]

"John Lumby" <johnlumby@hotmail.com> wrote:
>       when I run this:
>          typeset -i rc=1;line="";echo -e "line 1\\nline 2" | while read -r
> line; do { [[ "$line" == *1 ]] && rc=0 && echo "rc=$rc line=$line" &&
> break; };done;echo "rc=$rc line=$line"
>
>          I see this:
> rc=0 line=line 1
> rc=1 line=

This is covered in entry E4 in the bash FAQ.


paul