Re: problem with builtin 'read' and standard input

[Enrique Perez-Terron]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:49, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > I'm trying to redirect data to the builtin 'read'.  I've no idea what's 
> > going wrong!
> > 
> > I believe this command
> >    echo "hello" | read myvar
> > should put "hello" into $myvar.  But $myvar is blank after execution.
> 
> Please read the Bash FAQ, question E4.

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Enrique