[ale] Perplexed by bash

[smeadspam100 at speedfactory.net (Keith Miller)]

Your pipe is causing a problem. What are you attempting to do here?


On Tue, 3 May 2005 18:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
"John Wells" <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
> function getRC
> {
>   RC="123"
> }
> 
> getRC \
> | while read line
> do
>   echo "456"
> done
> 
> echo "RC: $RC"