On 7/29/13 10:55 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
> I didn't take a look on where the problem could be, but it is discussed on
> stackoverflow [1].
>
> Looks like return builtin falsely exit execution of while loop instead of
> function.
What would you like to see happen? You're in a subshell: the function
can't return, since this is not the shell that called it. Do you want
parent and child shells both continuing execution after the function call?
Chet
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