bash and mksh cannot set a variable from a pipe
Issue
- bash fails to set a variable when reading from a pipe:
[user@localhost ~]$ echo foo | read bar [user@localhost ~]$ echo "bar=\"$bar\"" bar="" [user@localhost ~]$ - mksh also fails the same way
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, any version
- bash, any version
- mksh, any version
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