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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:01:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gerald Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Cygwin 1.3.10 read command and W2K
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I have scripts with reads that are failing.  Why
doesn't "echo text | read var; echo $var" work?  var
is just empty.  Doesn't 'read' default to stdin?  All
other commands seem to be working only read is having
problem.



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