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<font size=3>Fred,<br>
Generally when you are looping and redirecting input to the loop, either
through a<br>
<br>
while<br>
do<br>
.<br>
.<br>
.<br>
done < some file<br>
<br>
or by piping as you have done here, the loop will run in a subshell which
means any variables which are assigned values within the loop will be
lost when the loop terminates.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
krf<br>
<br>
At 09:12 AM 2/27/2002 -0600, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>(Sorry - on the first attempt I cut out the
discussion part - second try here)<br>
<br>
#! /bin/bash<br>
#<br>
makeList.sh<br>
#<br>
ServerList=$1<br>
WordList=$2<br>
<br>
declare -a S<br>
declare -a U<br>
<br>
Count=0<br>
cat $ServerList | while read Server User<br>
do<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>S[$Count]=$Server<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>U[$Count]=$User<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Count=`expr
$Count + 1`<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>echo
"$Count"<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>echo
"${#S[*]} ${#S[@]}"<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>ACount=$Count<br>
done<br>
echo "count : $Count"<br>
echo "number of elements : ${#S[*]} ${#S[@]}"<br>
echo "acount : $ACount"<br>
<br>
Leave=0<br>
echo "$Leave $Count"<br>
while test $Leave -lt $Count<br>
do<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>echo
"$Leave: ${S[$Leave]} ${U[$Leave]}"<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Leave=`expr
$Leave + 1`<br>
done<br>
exit<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Victor Brilon wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Can you post some code showing exactly what
you mean? Sounds like<br>
you're running into a variable scope problem maybe.<br>
Victor<br>
On 26-Feb-2002 Fred James wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Within a while loop, strings are assigned to
the elements of an<br>
array, and the index variable is incremented.<br>
<br>
Once the loop completes, the value of the index variable is zero.<br>
<br>
What is happening?<br>
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