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--Joe

On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:16 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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