Hi,
don't know if this is the right newsgroup, but it's the only one
I can find with "bash" in its name :-)
I want to do something like this:
result=""
/usr/bin/output_generator | while read line; do
extracteddata=`echo "$line" | sed -e 's/X/Y/'`
result="$result $extracteddata"
done
/usr/bin/another_tool "$result"
In the last line is "result" as empty as at the start of the
whole thing - I guess because the inner "while" loop is executed
in a subshell, so that changing the value of "result" in this
loop does not affect the "outer result".
How can I solve this? I have some very ugly solutions, but
I guess there must be something "nice" :-)
(using bash-3.2.17(1)-release)
Thanks and regards
-stefan-
