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While-loop subshell dilemma in Bash
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Because I trapped into this myself, I asked a question and did give also the answer here. If find
iterates over what the command did find, this is executed from bash
in a subshell. So you can not fill an array with results and use it after your loop.
You have to change the syntax from:
i=0
find $cont_dirs_abs -type l -exec test -e {} \; -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' lxc_storage_abspath; do
lxcname=${lxc_storage_abspath##*/}
...
lxcnames[$i]="$lxcname"
let "i+=1"
done
to
i=0
while IFS= read -r -d '' lxc_storage_abspath; do
lxcname=${lxc_storage_abspath##*/}
...
lxcnames[$i]="$lxcname"
let "i+=1"
done < <(find $cont_dirs_abs -type l -exec test -e {} \; -print0)
In my case i can after this loop access the bash array $lxcnames
:
i=0
for lxcname in ${lxcnames[*]}; do
...
done
Hope that helps anybody.