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Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:43:56 +0100
From: Dirk Fassbender <dirk DOT fassbender AT arcor DOT de>
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Subject: Re: problem under cygwin with sh, bash, ksh
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Václav Haisman schrieb:
> Hubert Samm wrote, On 6.3.2009 14:26:
>> Hi All...  I've searched and found nothing....  this script runs just fine on 
>> AIX, Solaris, and Linux, but under cygwin, the array VALUE prints only 
>> blanks.. has anyone else run into this... I've tried a bunch of different 
>> things around typecast, etc, but it looks like VALUE is local in the table_it 
>> function...  any thoughts???
>> [...]
> Have you tried debugging it using the -x switch to see what is going on?
> Simple test case of setting VALUE[0]=$1 and then echoing "${VALUE[0]}" does
> print what I give it, using bash.
> 
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This is a problem with portable script programming between different shells.
Some explanations:

Shell Versions used:
AIX uses as the default  sh  shell a  ksh Version 88.
HP-UX uses as the default  sh   shell a  ksh Version 88.
Solaris uses as the default  sh  shell a non posix compatible shell.
The ksh on Solaris is mostly a Version 88, opensolaris uses a ksh 
Version 93.
Linux uses as the default  sh  shell a bash.
Older Linux versions uses a  pdksh  as a replacement for the ksh shell.
Newer Linux versions uses a  ksh    Version 93.
Cygwin uses as the default  sh  shell a bash
Cygwin uses the a  pdksh  as a replacement fir the ksh shell.

Setting variables and sub shells.
If you set a variable in a sub shell, this variable usable in the 
calling shell. You can execute commands in a sub shell with the 
following syntax  (list).

The different shell executed the commands in a pipe in a different 
manner. The shells uses internally sub shells to execute the different 
commands of a pipe line.


            command1  |  command2  |  command3
is executed in this order in the different shells.
bash   :   command1  | (command2) | (command3)
pdksh  :   command1  | (command2) | (command3)
ksh    :  (command1) | (command2) |  command3

So only in a ksh it is possible to set a variable in the last command of 
a pipeline and uses this variable later in the shell script.

A short example script for bash, pdksh and ksh is attached.
It includes a in all 3 shell working solution at the end.

So the solution for your problem is to use a ksh  version 93 on cygwin 
or rewrite your code more portable.
You can download a version of ksh version 93 from http://www.kornshell.com/

Regards
Dirk


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