From: Kjeld DOT F DOT Christensen AT dxd DOT ericsson DOT se Subject: Re: BUG? read and pipe 17 Apr 1998 03:54:12 -0700 Sender: root AT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: References: <980409145932 DOT AA07604 DOT SM AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu> To: chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; name="Re:"; charset=US-ASCII > > 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".