Counter increment in Bash loop not working

Question

I have the following simple script where I am running a loop and want to maintain a COUNTER. I am unable to figure out why the counter is not updating. Is it du

Answer 1

Instead of using a temporary file, you can avoid creating a subshell around the while loop by using process substitution.

while ...
do
   ...
done < <(grep ...)

By the way, you should be able to transform all that grep, grep, awk, awk, awk into a single awk.

Starting with Bash 4.2, there is a lastpipe option that

runs the last command of a pipeline in the current shell context. The lastpipe option has no effect if job control is enabled.

bash -c 'echo foo | while read -r s; do c=3; done; echo "$c"'

bash -c 'shopt -s lastpipe; echo foo | while read -r s; do c=3; done; echo "$c"'
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