Bug 8894 – pipe to read command does not work in ksh/korn

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Bug 8894 - pipe to read command does not work in ksh/korn

Summary:	pipe to read command does not work in ksh/korn

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	pdksh (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Duplicates:	3200 20097 42720 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2000-01-26 09:01 EST by Robert Easterling
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-06-18 17:50:40 EDT
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Description Robert Easterling 2000-01-26 09:01:04 EST

The read command does not receive the data from a pipe, e.g.

ksh-\1> echo "test" | read x
ksh-\2> echo $x

ksh-\3> read x
test
ksh-\4> echo $x
test
ksh-\5>

As you see in the second attempt without the pipe, read gets
the input string and assigns to variable x.  Both will work
on HP-UX and on SunOS.

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2000-02-03 15:31:59 EST

This happens with bash too, FWIW.

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-04-06 18:51:59 EDT

It works with zsh - the author of pdksh is aware of the problem:
http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-08-02 09:56:07 EDT

The author is of the opinion that this is undefined behaviour in the POSIX spec.
Closing.

Comment 4 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-10-31 12:52:41 EST

*** Bug 20097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-05-29 14:01:00 EDT

*** Bug 3200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-05-29 14:02:03 EDT

*** Bug 42720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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