* On 21 Apr 2016, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Unless it has changed recently, bash runs redirected read > commands in a sub-process. Thus the variable fn would not > get set in the main process.
I haven't run into this (that I recall) with regular input redirection. It does happen with piped input redirection (to a read) because the pipeline terminal isn't the current shell. yes: read fn </dev/tty no: cat /dev/tty | read fn -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
