RE: Ksh Misbehaves - Needs The Nanny

  • From: "Post, Ethan" <Ethan.Post@xxxxxx>
  • To: "Kevin Lange" <klange@xxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:54:56 -0500

That will work because it is in the same shell, the subshell does not
pass back the variable assignments.  When you "cat file | " you are
opening a subshell. =20

Lesson to be learned here, if you are porting to Linux be very carefull
if you have a lot of shell scripts!  I think the same problem is in bash
since the link I sent in the last email related to bash.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Lange [mailto:klange@xxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:51 PM
To: Post, Ethan; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Ksh Misbehaves - Needs The Nanny

Try

echo "1\n2\n3" > cat.file

for i in `cat cat.file`
do
   case ${i} in
      1) X=3DIN ;;
   esac
done


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