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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Arithmetic operation in variable Post 302980833 by Corona688 on Friday 2nd of September 2016 05:42:02 PM
Old 09-02-2016
This question pops up an awful lot.

When you run shell commands in a pipe, they exist inside a different shell. This shell sums up the value perfectly and quits - leaving you in your original shell where the value was never changed.

Which end of the pipe is 'your' shell can vary from shell to shell. In KSH, you'd have gotten the total; I suspect you're running bash.

There's a few ways to deal with this and make it work in both.

Stuffing the entire program into the subshell with ( ) grouping braces:

Code:
git branch -r | (
        while read something
        do
                ...
        done 

        echo "total is $total"
)

Here-doc:

Code:
while read something
do
...
done <<EOF
$(git branch -r)
EOF

You could also use a temp file.
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NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
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DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
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COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
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