[ILUG] Bash using locally scoped vars inside while loop.

[Stephen Shirley]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:20:10PM +0000, Kevin O' Riordan wrote:
> seq 1 3 | while read i; do
>     some_var="$some_var $i"     # Assign to some_var ...
>     echo "    in while: $some_var"  # ... show that some_var is changed.
> done

Seeing as Padraig has answered your question, i'll just suggest a way
around it:

for i in `seq 1 3`; do
	blah
done

Steve
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