[TriLUG] possible awk/grep question

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Paul McLanahan wrote:

> I haven't used "declare -x" to get a variable out of a script before.
> Are you trying to use this script to setup an environment?

I was trying to recover the variable into the body of the 
script that contains the code we're discussing.

> I know that you can use the $collection variable after the 
> loop in the first example below and it will contain the 
> data you gave it in the loop,

yes got it. I was wondering if I could use the

command | while read.
do
 	foo=
done

construct to then use foo.

> My only point was that if you tried it with the code below, that your
> "$collection" variable would still be blank after the loop.

understand

Thanks

Joe

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