X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Kevin Markle Subject: Re: Varibles not working in do loop... Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:06:33 -0400 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <46116207.8060009@cygwin.com> <5abc24640704021326p2bfbcc0che61f4aec02964ec1@mail.gmail.com> <46116C70.8030508@cygwin.com> Reply-To: kmarkle@pbs.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Larry Hall (Cygwin) formulated on Monday : > Andrew Louie wrote: >> On 4/2/07, Kevin Markle wrote: >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) expressed precisely : >>> > Kevin Markle wrote: >> >>> What does this mean please and or would you send me your copy that >>> works fine? >>> "$LOG" == > "". In these cases, the "hang" is 'cat' waiting for input >>> from the command >>> > line. >> >> I think he means that in the line: >> >>> UPDATES_NEEDED=`cat $LOG | grep "updates detected" | tail -1` >> >> cat $LOG... will hang if $LOG == "" because "cat" is waiting for input. >> > > Precisely. That helps but my problem is the line above where it get the value for LOG for whatever reason doesn't get the value of LOG in the for loop but can outside of the loop... :o) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/