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On 05/03/2005 06:15 PM, John Wells wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why the while loop in the below code affects the
> setting of the variable RC?  I'm at a loss.  Remove the while loop, and it
> works just fine...
> --
> #!/bin/bash
> function getRC
> {
>   RC="123"
> }
> 
> getRC \
> | while read line
> do
>   echo "456"
> done
> 
> echo "RC: $RC"
> 
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