Hi,
Writing a little utility to help me on something but having trouble.
Why does f stay blank?

d...@lin4:test$ echo "foo|bar" | awk 'BEGIN{RS="|"}{ print $1 }' | while
read s; do echo $s; f=$s; done; echo "'$f'"
foo
bar
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Regards
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