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Re: BUG? read and pipe
- To: chet at nike dot ins dot cwru dot edu
- Subject: Re: BUG? read and pipe
- From: Kjeld dot F dot Christensen at dxd dot ericsson dot se
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:07:00 +0200
- Cc: chet at po dot cwru dot edu, Kjeld dot F dot Christensen at dxd dot ericsson dot se, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
> > I have a problem combining the read command and a pipe in bash
> >
> > bash.exe-2.01$ echo ffff | read ddd
> > bash.exe-2.01$ echo $ddd
> >
> > bash.exe-2.01$ echo ffff > e
> > bash.exe-2.01$ read dd < e
> > bash.exe-2.01$ echo $dd
> > ffff
> >
> > Is this a bug or what?
>
> No. Read the Bash FAQ, question 28.
OK, that explains it.
But apparantly the Korn Shell can handle it.
Thats where im porting the code from.
Kjeld
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