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Re: Variable undefines - bug or feature?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Variable undefines - bug or feature?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:41:48 -0500
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On 1/23/12 2:58 PM, Denis Melnikov wrote:
> Hi,
> after the following fragment of code named variable gets empty:
> 
> ls | while read file ; do
>   v=1
>   break
> done
> echo $v
> 
> Is it a bug or a feature?
> GNU bash, version 4.1.2(1)-release

All components of a pipeline generally run in separate processes.  A
child process can't affect its parent.  If you upgrade to bash-4.2, look
at the `lastpipe' option to run the last component in the parent shell
process.

Chet


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