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If you wanted to assign the output of the pipeline, use a=$(b | c) .
Problematic code
sum=find | wc -l
Correct code
sum=$(find | wc -l)
Rationale
The intention in this code was that sum would in some way get the value of the command find | wc -l.
However, | has precedence over the =, so the command is a two stage pipeline consisting of sum=find and wc -l.
sum=find is a plain string assignment. Since it happens by itself in an independent pipeline stage, it has no effect: it produces no output, and the variable disappears when the pipeline stage finishes. Because the assignment produces no output, wc -l will count 0 lines.
To instead actually assign a variable with the output of a command, command substitution $(..) can be used.
Exceptions
None. This warning is triggered whenever the first stage of a pipeline is a single assignment, which is never correct.