ash while loops and variable scope

[Harald Becker]

 Hallo Stuart!
> So what you're saying is that it's more an artifact of the fact that
> I'm piping stdout from one app to the while loop, it therefore excutes
> as a subshell?
True!

> Do you know of some document that describes ash's scripting language? The best I've come up with is
> for the original Bourne shell 'sh', since I know 'bash' is a superset.
There exists a man page for ash, try google with "ash manpage" or use
the following link:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/ash

But keep in mind, there are a few differences between real ash and the
version included in busybox ... look ahead for another mail to this topic.

--
Harald