Re: Another (simpler) bash scripting question...

[Michael O'Donnell]

>it has a subtle scoping gotcha that drove me nuts the
>first time I tripped over it - anybody know what I'm
>referring to?

No?  Then how about this?

   result=badness    # init with failure default
   spewSomeKindOfOutput | while read input
   do
       result=goodness
   done
   echo $result

What is the output?


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