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Accessing the output of a Bash pipe with 'read'

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Mar 15, 202613186 views

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I'm trying to pipe some data from a Bash pipe into a Bash variable using the read command, like this: But quot is empty. Some Googling revealed that this is not a bug; it's an intended feature of Bash. (Section E5 in the FAQ.) But when I tried the same thing in zsh, it worked. (Ditto for ksh.) Is t…

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$ echo "Alexander the Grape" | read quot
$ echo $quot
$

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For additional reading on this subject, see BashFAQ/024. There are a bunch of ways to do variable assignments in Bash: etc.

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