Re: echo thing | read thang

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Paul Jarc wrote:

> Philip Lijnzaad <lijnzaad@ebi.ac.uk> writes:
> > (I was actually exploring why on earth echo foo | read bar; echo $bar does
> > not work; I consider this a bug as well, perhaps not as 'blatant' as the
> > above one, but puzzling nonetheless).
>
> See question E4 in the FAQ; each command in a pipeline is run in a
> separate process, so the process that performs the "read" commands is
> not the process that performs the subsequent "echo" command.  You may
> find this useful: read var < <(command)

Or:

cmd1 | {
        while read var
        do
            var1="$var $var1"
        done
        echo $var1
        }

All the commands within the braces are executed in the same subshell.

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