Gurus and wizards,
I am NOT a shell expert (yet!), so I may just be misunderstanding this...
I expect the following script to set the variable mydir to the current
working directory. If I run it under the Korn shell, it does what
I expect. If I run it under Bourne shell, then mydir echoes as empty.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
#
# This does not seem to work using sh but does for ksh
#
pwd | read mydir
echo $mydir
The man pages for "read" don't indicate any variation due to shell.
Is this the expected function of "sh" and "ksh"?
--CHRis
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Received on Fri May 21 1999 - 20:05:31 NZST