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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Different variable assignments
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 14:52:01 +0200
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On 19.10.2024 13:45, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <vec3qb$3q4ms$3@dont-email.me>,
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:50:10 +0200, Frank Winkler wrote:
>>
>>> ... but it still doesn't solve the issue that I need the result to be 
>>> visible in the parent shell.
>>
>>    coproc { uname -sr; }
>>    read -u ${COPROC[0]} var3
>>    wait $COPROC_PID
>>    echo $var3
> 
> I'm actually a fan of "coproc" in bash, and I use it in my scripting, but I
> think it is overkill in most cases.  [...]

Also, if above code is how to use co-processes in Bash, I consider
that extremely clumsy (if compared to, say, Ksh).

(Mileages may vary, of course.)

Janis