Re: read doesn't work with piped stdin

[Bob Proulx]

Blaine Simpson wrote:
>       read silently fails when stdin is piped to it.  -u switch does
> not help.  Redirection works fine.

Same as the other problem with exit in a pipeline.  Pipelines operate
in subshells.  Environment variables are local to the process.  Please
see question E4 in the bash FAQ for more information.

  http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

Bob