Georg Neis wrote:
Brian wrote:
The following does not (the value is empty):
echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; }
echo "Data received = $E Bytes" <--- $E is empty
I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in
a subshell.
Yes.
So how can I extract the parts I want into variables to use them later
on in the script?
$ teststring='field1 field2 field3'
$ set -- $teststring
$ echo $2
field2
Regards,
Georg
Georg,
this works perfectly thanks.
Cheers Brian
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