Question about the 'read' command in bash
JROZYCKI@ebmail.gdeb.com
JROZYCKI@ebmail.gdeb.com
Thu May 10 12:27:00 GMT 2001
I have a bash shell script with the following lines of code:
#!/bin/bash
uname | cut -c1-4 | read op_sys
echo $op_sys
This works fine at work using SGI IRIX and ksh, but under cygwin and bash
at home, op_sys does not get set - null is echoed.. what do I need to do
differently?
thanks,
Jeff
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