Can anyone explain what is happening here (using pdksh as my shell) when I try to set an environment variable using 'read':
This works: $ read VAR1 Test1 $ echo "VAR1 is $VAR1" VAR1 is Test1 This doesn't work: $ echo Test2 | read VAR2 $ echo "VAR2 is $VAR2" VAR2 is This works within the 'while' loop only: $ echo Test3 | while read VAR3 > do > echo "VAR3 is $VAR3" > done VAR3 is Test3 $ echo "VAR3 is $VAR3" VAR3 is Regards Ian Taylor -- 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/
