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the | while read element; do ... done is running in a sub-shell, so its updates to the global are lost when the sub-shell exits.

one solution is to use bash's 'process substitution' to get the input to the while loop to run in a subshell instead. see: reading multiple lines in bash without spawning a new subshell?

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