Maximillian Murphy wrote:
E4) If I pipe the output of a command into `read variable', why doesn't
the output show up in $variable when the read command finishes?
Would it cause a great deal of upset if the last section of a pipeline
ran in the current process?
It could work when job control is not active -- nobody has done the
work -- but is fundamentally incompatible with job control and
process groups.
Chet
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