IMHO that's because you are passing output of cat file1 command to while loop which is considered as a new shell(or in other language creates a sub shell to execute while loop). So once while loop is done with execution its new value of i gets lost and when you try to print its value; it prints OLD value for i.
Now lets do this with another way(Without using cat file | while.....
When you run script file.ksh we will see following.
I believe that is proved why in your attempt i's value is getting lost.
Thanks,
R. Singh
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It's good to mention that there is a major difference between bash and ksh running the same code.
Which is expected due to ksh / bash difference in implementation.
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Peasant.
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Can someone help me understand why it is back to 0 ( why not 5?)
As Ravinder has already said it is because of the pipeline. Basically in classical Bourne Shell (and its descendants, bash - Bourne Again Shell - among them) code like this:
is executed by running the process1 in the main shell and process2 in its own subshell. Therefore the while-loop you use runs in its own subshell, with its own variables and inside this shell your variables work - which is why your counter is increased - but when the subshell is left (at the end of the loop) all these variables are deleted. This is why your counter variable is zero at the end.
Notice that the other descendant of the Bourne shell - the Korn Shell, ksh - does things differently. In ksh your code would work as you obviously expect because it executes the last element of a pipeline in the main shell. You can force bash (since, IIRC version 4) to do the same but you must set this option explicitly:
will set the behavior of bash to exactly the same as ksh always had. So your options are: switch to ksh (most of the code is the same but there are subtle differences between bash and ksh) or set the lastpipe option.
By the way: notice that pipelines and redirections word differently in bash, regardless of the lastpipe-setting! This simple line-counter:
will not work (for the same reasons as your code) but:
will.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
/PS: only now saw that peasant has also addressed the ksh<->bash difference. He is absolutely right.
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Reason: corrected typo
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As is often the case with a little bit of jiggery pokery there is a pseudo-back-door.
The storage device can be your friend although it will slow things down with the disk thrashing and huge numbers.
NOTE: This uses 'dash' which means it is fully POSIX compliant.
Results OSX 10.14.3, default terminal.
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