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Re: problems with 'read'ing from a pipe


From: John Smith
Subject: Re: problems with 'read'ing from a pipe
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:04:00 +0100

Ok, so maybe I should have just 'read the manual'
;)

But it still confuses me somewhat, since AT&T's kornshell behaves
differently.. I just downloaded the latest available version for Linux
from the url mentioned below, and it does work in AT&T's ksh as I
expected...


http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/

But I guess that you would consider that a bug in ksh ?
;)


Regards,


John Smith


On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> "John Smith" <lbalbalba@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > echo foo | read VAR
>  > echo $VAR
>
>  See entry E4 in the bash FAQ:
>  http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/FAQ
>
>
>  paul
>




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