Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: From: "Jan Schormann" To: Subject: cont'd - RE: 1.5.9: Trouble with setting variables using 'read' in a script Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:21:26 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <201BC46BD93D244AB0A910D1203FFC1904B6A873@ecexchange02.euphony.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 May 2004 14:21:26.0472 (UTC) FILETIME=[6A883C80:01C43375] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-105.2 required=5.5 tests=BAYES_10,IN_REP_TO,MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-IsSubscribed: yes (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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/