Re: IFS handling and read

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:46:03AM +0100, Lhunath (Maarten B.) wrote:
> Don't use pipelines to send streams to read.  Use file redirection instead:
> 
> Instead of ''command | read var''
> Use ''read var < <(command)''
> 
> I hardly see a need to change the existing implementation.

Or for the original problem case, use a here string:

IFS=: read a b <<< "1:2"

Between process substitutions (the <(command) thing) and here strings,
you should be able to do all your reads without subshells.