dpk wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Xu Qiang wrote: > As soon as you used the pipe, to the while, you entered a sub-shell. > There's no way (that I'm aware of anyways) to get the sub-shell's > variables sent back up to the parent.
Thanks for your detailed analysis and a solution. Yes, I didn't notice the pipe's effect. Btw, can we "export" a value in the sub-shell back to the parent? thanks, Xu Qiang _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
