[lug] Some help with bash, please

[Kenneth D Weinert]

OK, I'm feeling really dumb right now as this just isn't working for me.
Here's the script I'm running:

#!/bin/bash

declare -xi total=0
declare -xi count

cat /tmp/orders | while read file;do 
        wc -l /dgorder/$file; 
done | while read count file;do 
        total=$((total + count))
done

echo "Number of Orders: $(wc -l /tmp/orders | tr -s ' '|cut -d' ' -f2)"
echo "Total Documents:  $total"

/tmp/orders is a file that has a filename, one per line

Each /dgorder/$file has a number of records in it and I'm trying to
count the total number of records in all the files.

I think the double loop is what's killing me as the $total variable
*always* ends up being zero.

Any thoughts, hints, pointers, other scripting languages are more than
welcome.  Since all the files are in the same directory I can fix the
main input file to have complete paths instead of just file names if
that helps.

Thanks - and I'm sure that as soon as I see a response or two I'll do
the old V8 slap to the forehead and wonder how I could be so dumb.

-- 
Ken Weinert
http://quarter-flash.com

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