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Subject: Re: Lost Assignment of var in shell for loop with stdout redirection
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Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 03:29:46 EST
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>>shell variables set inside the loop won't be available outside of it.
>
>The /bin/sh distributed with 4.nBSD (for n <= 4, at least) is a really
>old, buggy, puny version of the Bourne shell.

Unfortunately, the new, bug-fixed, whizzy version supplied with
System V, Releases 2 and 3 does the exact same thing.