Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100
Brian <Brian_dorling@t-online.de> wrote:
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> I could not get this to work, the shell complains:
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> ./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
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Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think
this is rather an esoteric but often useful bash feature. (It also
needs /proc so is not available in some special cases.)
> The other solution from Alex:
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> >> echo "$teststring" | ( read A B C D E F; )
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> Of course, both solutions work perfectly under bash.
>
This should not have worked under bash either since it is still running
in a sub-shell, so the variables are lost when read finishes.
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