Variables value gets lost in subshell

Question

This bash script concatenates the names for jar files to a classpath (variable CP), in the while loop the value is correct but is lost in the subshell as descibed in this re

Answer 1

You might find using find a bit more versatile.

For example:

export CP=$( find /home/depesz/q/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.jar' -printf ':%p' | cut -b 2- )

Of course set of find options is dependant on what you need/want.

This one is closer to what you had previously:

export CP=$( find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.jar' -printf ':%f' | cut -b 2- )