From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/10/2025 1:04 AM, Henry Crun wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   Maybe it's just me, but I don't think  that will work in DCL.  :-)   
      
   bill   
      
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