scope of variable in pipe

Question

The following shell scrip will check the disk space and change the variable diskfull to 1 if the usage is more than 10% The last echo always shows

Answer 1

This is a side-effect of using while in a pipeline. There are two workarounds:

1) put the while loop and all the variables it uses in a separate scope as demonstrated by levislevis86

some | complicated | pipeline | {
    while read line; do
        foo=$( some calculation )
    done
    do_something_with $foo
}
# $foo not available here

2) if your shell allows it, use process substitution and you can redirect the output of your pipeline to the input of the while loop

while read line; do
    foo=$( some calculation )}
done < <(some | complicated | pipeline)
do_something_with $foo