cont'd - RE: 1.5.9: Trouble with setting variables using 'read' in a script

[Jan Schormann]

(Please excuse the unfinished last mail, I hit "Ctrl-Enter"
by accident.)

>   - echo "text" | read var ; echo $var
>   - cat file | read var ; echo $var
>   - read var < file | echo $var

.. continuing from last time, all of these won't work
because you're always creating a new subshell.

Try

  read var < file ; echo $var

Cheers,
	Jan.



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