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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Setting a variable within if block Post 302345022 by padmisri on Tuesday 18th of August 2009 08:45:58 AM
Old 08-18-2009
Hi,

i use echo $IS_VAR only.

and the example is slightly modified here

its like,
I
Code:
S_VAR=0
ls | while read input
do
if [ $input = "hi" ]
then
  IS_VAR=1
  echo $IS_VAR
  break
fi
done
echo $IS_VAR

for the first echo , i get 1 and for the second i get 0.

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-18-2009 at 10:02 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
 

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