From: Kjeld.F.Christensen@dxd.ericsson.se Subject: Re: BUG? read and pipe 17 Apr 1998 03:54:12 -0700 Sender: root@cygnus.com Message-ID: References: <980409145932.AA07604.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> To: chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu Cc: chet@po.cwru.edu, Kjeld.F.Christensen@dxd.ericsson.se, gnu-win32@cygnus.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@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".