Re: [tlug] Bash looping issue [SOLVED]

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On 2010-10-12 at 11:37:08, Romeo Theriault wrote:
>Looks like bash is starting the while-read loop in a subshell so
>you're losing your variable assignments when the subshell exits. This
>page talks about a few ways around this:
>
>http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Piped_%60while-read'_loop_starts_subshell

Wow. I had no idea that while-read needed a subshell. Thanks! I managed 
to get it working.

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