From: mike@rechtman.com   
      
   On 10/05/2025 7:32, David Meyer wrote:   
   > I found that one way to do it is to put all the processing that uses the   
   > command output inside subshells in the same PIPE command.   
   >   
   > One shortcoming of this method is that it's very easy to go over the   
   > maximum command element length allowed inside the PIPE. For my   
   > procedure, I was able to get around this by choosing lexical functions   
   > to minimize the length of the PIPE command.   
   >   
   > Any other way to do this?   
      
   try e.g.   
   $ count=$( dir *.sh | wc -l )   
   $ echo $count   
   25   
      
   HTH   
      
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