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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Retaining value outside loop Post 303031423 by knowyrtech on Thursday 28th of February 2019 06:07:50 AM
Old 02-28-2019
Retaining value outside loop

Hi,

I m new to shell scripting. I did some research and understand that unix treats while and other loops as new shell and hence the variable loose its value outside of the loop.

I found solution for integer variable but in mycase this is a string variable.

here variable loc is a multiline string.

Code:
totalstr=""
echo "$loc" | while IFS= read -r line ; do
totalstr=$totalstr,$line;
done
echo "Final Output:$totalstr"

I wish the get the multiline string in variable totalstr this format: string1,string2,string3,string4

But currently it is blank as it looses scope. Can you let me know what should be done ?
 

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