Ok, so maybe I should have just 'read the manual' ;) But it still confuses me somewhat, since AT&T's kornshell behaves differently.. I just downloaded the latest available version for Linux from the url mentioned below, and it does work in AT&T's ksh as I expected...
http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/ But I guess that you would consider that a bug in ksh ? ;) Regards, John Smith On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Paul Jarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > echo foo | read VAR > > echo $VAR > > See entry E4 in the bash FAQ: > http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/FAQ > > > paul >
