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From: Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de>
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Subject: Re: Different variable assignments
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:45:07 +0200
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On 11.10.2024 20:27, John-Paul Stewart wrote:

  >I don't know about other shells, but in Bash each command in a pipeline
  >is run in a subshell.  (See the "Pipelines" section of the Bash man
  >page.)  Thus you're doing the 'read var3' part in a different shell than
  >where 'echo $var3' runs.  That's why it is empty when you echo it.

That sounds very plausible - thanks for enlighting! :)
So this is not a "read" issue but rather a matter of shell instance and 
hence there's no way to do the assignment at the end?

Regards

	fw