Make whiptail work in a for loop

I have a bash script that checks ping for 163 sites(stores around the country), which is this: #!/bin/bash #storestest.sh #version 0.9.2 clear; printf "Check stores procedure started; date +"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"\n"; declare -a STORESITE=($(cat 'stores.txt' | awk -F, '{print $1}')); # Declaring an array and populated by the file stores.txt declare -i UP=0; # Create a variable to serve as a counter for stores that are up declare -i DOWN=0; # Create a variable to serve as a counter for stores that are down touch storesdown.txt; # Create a file if does not exist to store the list of the store the stores that are down printf "" > storesdown.txt; # Clear the contents of the file touch storesup.txt; # Create a file if does not exist to store the list of the store the stores that are up printf "" > storesup.txt; # Clear the contents of the file whiptail --title "Testing stores connectivity" --backtitle "Store Test" --yes-button "OK" --no-button "Cancel" --yesno "Check stores procidure has started" 10 50 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit; fi for i in "${STORESITE[@]}" ; do ping -c 3 $i > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "$i is up" >> storesup.txt; let UP++ sleep 1 else echo "$i is down" >> storesdown.txt; let DOWN++ sleep 1 fi printf "Total: $UP are online and $DOWN are off line.\r"; done echo "Total: $UP are online and $DOWN are off line."; exit; The above script is working fine but I decided to make it a bit fancier by adding a gauge to show the total progress of it. So here is what I did next: #!/bin/bash #storestest.sh #version 0.9.3 clear; printf "Check stores procedure started; date +"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"\n"; declare -a STORESITE=($(cat 'stores.txt' | awk -F, '{print $1}')); # Declaring an array and populated by the file stores.txt declare -i UP=0; # Create a variable to serve as a counter for stores that are up declare -i DOWN=0; # Create a variable to serve as a counter for stores that are down touch storesdown.txt; # Create a file if does not exist to store the list of the store the stores that are down printf "" > storesdown.txt; # Clear the contents of the file touch storesup.txt; # Create a file if does not exist to store the list of the store the stores that are up printf "" > storesup.txt; # Clear the contents of the file whiptail --title "Testing stores connectivity" --backtitle "Store Test" --yes-button "OK" --no-button "Cancel" --yesno "Check stores procidure has started" 10 50 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit; fi total="${#STORESITE[*]}"; { for ((g = 0; g /dev/null 2> /dev/null; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "$i is up" >> storesup.txt; let UP++ sleep 2 else echo "$i is down" >> storesdown.txt; let DOWN++ sleep 2 fi printf "Total: $UP are online and $DOWN are off line.\r"; done sleep 1 echo $g done } | whiptail --gauge "Please wait" 6 60 0 echo "Total: $UP are online and $DOWN are off line."; exit; Which does not work as I thought it should be.... That was the best way I could think and write to make at least the whiptail work, but apparently what it happens is to skip the nested loop. P.S I know some of my coding is obsolete and old fashion way of bash scripting.