Bug 16588

Summary: bug with ksh
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <gbouchez>
Component: zshAssignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
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Description Need Real Name 2000-08-19 17:47:22 UTC 
Hi,
i've scripts writen with ksh, to administrate Oracle Databases
my problem is:
i initialize a variable before a loop (while do...done)
next, in the loop , my variable increase (let a=a+1,...)
and when i leave the loop, my variable have the value before the loop
and not the value at the end of the loop !

Could you help me ?

I've a similar problem whith zsh and the values store in arrays
Thanks 

gbouchez
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-08-19 18:11:47 UTC 
I can't reproduce this (zsh and ksh), they both seem to work like expected:

a=1
print $a
while true  ; do
    print $a;
    let a=a+1
    if [ $a -ge 21 ]; then
	break;
    fi
     
done

print "Done!"
print $a