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Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:14:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gerald Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.10 read command and W2K
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bash version is 2.05a.0(3)

--- Gerald Reno <grenoml AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 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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