03-03-2008
variables in shell
hi, i'm new in shell scripting and i'm working on bash on solaris 5.9
after try many stuff with unexpected results, i wonder:
it is not posible in bash, to use a variable that was created inside a loop, out of it?
i mean, for instance:
cat mytext | \
while read text
do
viko[$i]=$text
i=$i+1
done
echo ${viko[1]}
echo $i
those variables, seem to be empty
isn't posible to use any of those (array elements, and $i) outside the loop, before the done statement?
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