I can't remember the title of the clasic KSH book we used in the good old days (it was white with blue lettering if I remember right), but I do not remember it ever saying that ENVs would be local within a 'while' loop. Until Linux, I never had this problem with ksh. I don't know if that was the case though with bsh (original bourne shell) as we never used it. --- Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:42 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > Then this is a departure from original/standard System V > > behaviour. Again, all System V based Unixes I have programmed > > under did have this behaviour. > > > > Anyone converting scritps (as I had to do) will run into > > this problem/behaviour. > > > BTW, On AIX when I tried using bash I had the same effect as I did on > Linux. When I tried it with ksh the results were as you obviously > expected. The subshell for the cat command was able to modify the > values of the variable in the parent. > > > > > > > > > --- Tim Waugh <twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:15:21AM -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > > > > > > This seems to be a Linux issue with the shells. > > > > > > It is correct behaviour, and POSIX-compliant to boot. > > > > > > Please see the bash FAQ, question E4. > > > > > > /usr/share/doc/bash-3.0/FAQ > > > > > > Tim. > > > */ > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
