[lug] In But Not Out Of Loop

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

Do you mean like this?

ls *.c | while read $file; do
C = $[$C + $(wc -c $file)]
done

echo $C


if you pipe something through a while loop that happens in a subshell.

I've been bit by that before.

At 04:40 AM 5/27/01 -0600, you wrote:

>This seems to work for me:
>
>C=0;
>while [ $C -lt 100 ] ; do
>         echo $C;
>         C=$[$C+1];
>done;
>echo "C is $C"
>
>Do you have a specific example?
>
>Regards,
>
>Eric Kilfoil
>Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
>ViaWest Internet Services
>
>
>On Sun, 27 May 2001, SoloCDM wrote:
>
> > Every time I have a bash while, for or any other type of loop,
> > with numbers processed and saved to a variable, the numbers are
> > not in the variable outside the loop.  Although, the numbers are
> > capable of use and manipulation in the variable, for reassigning
> > the variable or recall, anytime before the loop ends.  How can the
> > variable's content be available outside the loop?
> >
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