[nflug] Re: nflug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 13

[Robert Meyer]

I actually tried it on an AIX 5.2 system and it didn't work in bash but it
worked in ksh.  Interesting that.  I would suspect that ksh on Linux is the
pdksh that has been available and the ksh on AIX is from SYSVr4.

Cheers!

Bob

--- Michael James <jamesm at thundertux.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the help.  I managed to google the solution, and it's as Bob 
> stated.  The read in the line is considered a subprocess, and the variables 
> user and terminal are considered local.  When the process exits, these 
> variables loose the contents.  Better solution was to use a tmp file, and 
> read the values back from that.  Oh yea, the first line in the script is 
> #!/bin/ksh.  
> 
> It's interesting that on the RS6000 under AIX, the pipe works fine.  I did 
> check the version of ksh loaded on the Linux system and it was current.  
> Thanks for the assist!
> 
> Michael James
> jamesm at thundertux.org
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