I have encountered a very weird behavior of a global variable in Korn Shell in AIX:
A function f1 in my script pipes the output of the function f2 to a program.
A variable defined as global using typeset gets its value in f2.
That value is not seen in f1. If I remove the pipe ksh recognizes the variable as global.
Can anybody explain this?
#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset var
function f2
{
var=1111
}
function f1
{
typeset lpt=tmp
var=alpha
f2 | wc $lpt
print "after f2 call, \$var is $var"
}
f1
