Bug 21902 - Unable to pipe into read
Summary: Unable to pipe into read
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 19747
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: bash
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-12-07 19:30 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-12-07 19:31:00 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2000-12-07 19:30:58 UTC 
I am currently try to write a shell script that will pipe the output into 
the read statement.  It is not working at all.  Example is
"snmpget 172.1.1.1 public interfaces.ifNumber.0 | awk '{print $3}' | read 
NUM"
It is not piping the output, which is a number, into the variable.
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2000-12-12 16:47:27 UTC 
please have a look at Bugzilla #19747

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19747 ***
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