Re: [PLUG] Splitting strings in bash

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

But the right side of a pipe should be stdin!

At any rate, the fact that it's using a subshell explains it.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 05:23:12PM -0400, Ron Guilmet via plug wrote:
> The one thing I thought of is that a pipe takes stdout while read takes stdin, I believe.
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> > On Apr 26, 2023, at 3:46 PM, Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
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> > So that solves my problem, but I'm still confused. Those two commands
> > seem to me like they should be identical. Why doesn't the first one work?
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