Brian wrote:
> The following does not (the value is empty):
>
> echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; }
> echo "Data received = $E Bytes" <--- $E is empty
>
> I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in
> a subshell.
Yes.
> So how can I extract the parts I want into variables to use them later
> on in the script?
$ teststring='field1 field2 field3'
$ set -- $teststring
$ echo $2
field2
Regards,
Georg
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