RE: Piping to the 'read' command

Thanks Dave - I guess I should have explained in my original email that I'm converting a ksh script which currently runs successfully under HP-UX. If I run the following command under HP-UX ksh: echo "Test" | read VAR1 VAR1 will hold the value "Test" in the parent environment. This doesn't happ

Piping to the 'read' command

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'