Thanks Gordon & Norman
I guess I lack imagination. It never dawned on me to redirect.
I thought about a new process being created, but dismissed that because I mistakenly thought that since j kept its value inside what might be the new process, then that meant it couldn't be a new process since I was expecting that new process to get a new j with a value of 0. That was my mistake. Thanks for explaining it.
Now maybe you could explain one other thing that I can't seem to wrap my brain around.
If I can write
RULEZ[i++]="$x"
and i gets incremented, why can't I write
i++
free standing to increment i? What rule am I violating? The error is "command not found", but then RULEZ[i++]="$x" isn't a "command" either.
I've tried
: ++i
and that's ignored even though : is the null operator.
How many different ways do you know of to write a statement to just increment a variable by 1 or 2?
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