04-08-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by
nimafire
logically echo $TOTAL must print correct number,
It does. In each of the individual and (sort of) independent shell / subshell levels. Look at it as having TWO variables called TOTAL, one in the parent shell, the second in the subshell, initialized from the parent's variable. No way back up.
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command(1) General Commands Manual command(1)
NAME
command - Treats command arguments as simple commands
SYNOPSIS
command [-p] command_name [argument...]
command [-v | -V] command_name
The command command causes the shell to treat the arguments to command as simple commands, and suppresses the default shell function
lookup.
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
command: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
Performs the command search using a default value for PATH that is guaranteed to find all of the standard utilities. Writes a string to
standard output that indicates the path name or command to be used by the shell in the current shell execution environment to invoke com-
mand_name. Writes a string to standard output that indicates how the name given in the command_name operand will be interpreted by the
shell in the current shell execution environment.
DESCRIPTION
The command command allows you to run the following commands: User-defined commands whose names correspond to shell built-in commands.
System commands whose names correspond to shell built-in commands.
The command_name argument specifies the name of a utility. The one or more optional arguments to command_name specify strings treated as
arguments to the specified utility. It also provides information concerning how a command name will be interpreted by the shell.
NOTES
[Tru64 UNIX] If command_name is not the name of a function, the effect of command is the same as would be obtained by specifying com-
mand_name without command.
RESTRICTIONS
Since the -v and -V options to command produce output in relation to the current shell execution environment, if command is called in a
subshell or separate utility execution environment, it may not produce correct results. The following are examples of this type of opera-
tion:
(PATH=foo command -v) nohup command -v
EXIT STATUS
When the -v or -V options are specified, command returns one of the following values. Successful completion. The command_name could not
be found, or an error occurred.
If the -v or -V options are not specified, command returns one of the following values on error. The utility specified by command_name was
found but could not be invoked. An error occurred in the command command, or the utility specified by the command_name argument could not
be invoked.
If no error occurs, the exit status of command is that of the command specified by the arguments to command.
EXAMPLES
To ensure execution of the simple command pwd instead of the pwd shell built-in command, enter the following: command -p pwd
The preceding command displays the full path name of the current directory, and does not perpetuate a view of the current directory loca-
tion created by links as the shell built-in command might do.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of command: Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that
are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization
variables contains an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string
value, overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables. Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multibyte characters in arguments). Determines the locale that
should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error. Determines the location of message cat-
alogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. Determines the search path used during the command search unless the -p option is specified.
SEE ALSO
Commands: env(1), hash(1), type(1)
Standards: standards(5)
command(1)