read and REPLY

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

I am very new to script writing so pardon my ignorance. I have been
working from the bash man page. It indicates that read (with no
parameters) puts the line read into the predefined variable REPLY. My
problem is that I don't seem to be able to *use* the variable. With a line
like: echo "$(REPLY)" or echo $(REPLY) I get the error : REPLY command not
found. If I try: echo REPLY the output is just REPLY.
How do I get the contents of reply?

TIA,

Dwarf

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