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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 22:50:10 +0200
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On 11.10.2024 22:20, Helmut Waitzmann wrote:

  >   uname -sr | { read var3 ; echo $var3 ; }

That's exactly how I just wanted to confirm John-Paul's answer ...

$ uname -sr | ( read var3; echo $var3 )
Darwin 24.0.0
$

.... but it still doesn't solve the issue that I need the result to be 
visible in the parent shell.

Regards

	fw