Bug in bash-2.04 (command read)

[Joachim Backes]

Hi,

there seems to be a bug in the builtin command "read":

Trying

        echo 1 2 3 | read a b d

After this, I expect the values 1, 2 and 3 in the bash vars a, b and d, but all 
3 vars
are left empty.

If I try:

        echo 1 2 3 >xxxxx; read <xxxxx a b d

then all is OK.

My platform: IRIX 6.5.9 or RH Linux 7.0.
Compiler: gcc 2.95.2

Regards

Joachim Backes

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