On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:08:27PM -0700, Keith Thompson wrote: > Description: > The "mapfile" command works correctly if stdin is redirected > from a file, but not if it's from a pipe.
This is because each command in a pipeline is executed in its own subshell. Not a bug. If you need to read input from a command with mapfile (or read), use a process substitution. > cat /tmp/input.txt | mapfile PIPE mapfile PIPE < /tmp/input.txt mapfile PIPE < <(a real program, not cat)
