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Re: I think bash logic in a loop like : while [ condition] |read somevar


From: Suvayu Ali
Subject: Re: I think bash logic in a loop like : while [ condition] |read somevar is flawed.
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:22:03 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1-rc1 (2013-10-16)

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 06:22:19PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 12/25/13, 1:33 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> 
> > If I remember correctly, POSIX allows the lastpipe behaviour.
> 
> It does, in its usual fashion: "each command of a multi-command pipeline
> is in a subshell environment; as an extension, however, any or all
> commands in a pipeline may be executed in the current environment."

Is there any technical reason to choose one over the other?  Or is it
not really a choice, and is determined by other limitations of the
shell?

Thanks for any explanations,

-- 
Suvayu

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