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Date:      21 Jan 2000 16:41:47 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sh(1) Messing with My Mind
Message-ID:  <869unr$5qn$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <867h6j$1kk4$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200001202140.WAA05161@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <20000120175518.F72914@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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Crist J. Clark <cjclark@home.com> wrote:

> >  > $ echo 3 | read NUM
> I could swear I have done this in the past.

Quite possible, if you were using AT&T ksh. Which happens to be
the only Bourne-style shell that executes the final command of a
pipeline in the parent shell.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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