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problems with 'read'ing from a pipe


From: John Smith
Subject: problems with 'read'ing from a pipe
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:21:52 +0100

Hi,


I was running into some unexpected behavior with bash and reading from
a pipeline, and am starting to wonder if im running into a bug or
whether im just doing something wrong.

For example, if I type the following :

echo foo | read VAR
echo $VAR

I would expect the the variable named VAR to contain the value foo.
Instead, the variable foo remains empty. Is this a bug or am I doing
something wrong ?




Sincerely,


John Smith




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