Hello, On 19/07/2009 Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On Sunday 19,July,2009 07:45 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > so the script needs to be changed to exit the while loop with > > information about whether > > - the target was found in crypttab > You already have that information. In the snippet of code: > > found="no" > egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*(#|$)" "$TABFILE" | while read dst src key opts; do > if [ "$1" = "$dst" ]; then > found="yes" > handle_crypttab_line_start "$dst" "$src" "$key" "$opts" <&3 > exit 0 > fi > done 3<&1 > > Note the value of the variable "found". If it's "yes", it was found, > otherwise it's not.
no, unfortunately not. the while read ... loop opens a subshell, thus the found="yes" inside is pointless. greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org