In bash, read after a pipe is not setting the value to a variable.

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Issue

  • In bash, read after a pipe is not setting the value to a variable.

    $ echo 1 | read var
    $ echo $var
    $
    
  • ksh works as expected.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • bash

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