BASH question
William Park
opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 26 16:49:17 UTC 2007
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:23:12PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Can't you just do:
> ls -l | while ...; do
> x=...
> done
> ... $x ...
>
> Does it need a subshell?
Yes. 'x=...' is inside of while-loop in a subshell; whereas, '...$x...'
is outside at the top level.
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