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Nested for loop inside a while loop
From: |
Alex Lanstein |
Subject: |
Nested for loop inside a while loop |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:25:41 -0500 |
I don't really understand why this hasnt been fixed or reported yet,
but when I need a for loop inside a whileloop, all the variabled
created or edited inside the for loop are local, not global. Here is
example code:
count=1
cat temp5 | while read num
do
if [ "$num" -ge "$count" ]; then
echo "$num" "is bigger than" "$count"
count="$num"
echo "$count" "is the new counter"
else
echo "$count" "is already bigger than" "$num"
fi
done
echo "$count" "is the temp counter now"
when im echoing it inside the loop $count is what it should be (5327)
but as soon as it exits, $count is 1 again
However, if ALL I do is edit the 'cat temp5 | while read num' to 'for
num in $( cat temp5 )', it works perfectly, $count gets echoed as 5327
instead of 1.
If a comment does get added to the code, please give Alex Lanstein and
Twans credit for it.
Thanks!
Alex Lanstein
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