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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting global variable not holding its value? Post 302268894 by Autocross.US on Tuesday 16th of December 2008 01:37:16 PM
Old 12-16-2008
If you run the for loop in a subshell, you can make that code work:

Code:
#! /bin/bash
TEST=1
(
 echo $TEST
 for i in 2 3 4 ; do
   TEST=$i
   echo $TEST
 done
)
echo $TEST

More info on variable scope here:
Subshells

Last edited by Autocross.US; 12-16-2008 at 02:41 PM.. Reason: clarity
 

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