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| From: | Marc Herbert |
| Subject: | Re: A note for read builtin |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:37 +0100 |
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>> - The POSIX standard does allow "echo 1 2 | read a b" to be useful >> (cf. 2.12 "Shell Execution Environment"). > Maybe the POSIX expect shell to execute the last command of pipeline > not in subshell. >From section 2.12 and from messages posted here in the past I understand that POSIX allows either one. This ambiguity reinforces the need for documentation IMHO.
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