On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:46:03AM +0100, Lhunath (Maarten B.) wrote: > Don't use pipelines to send streams to read. Use file redirection instead: > > Instead of ''command | read var'' > Use ''read var < <(command)'' > > I hardly see a need to change the existing implementation.
Or for the original problem case, use a here string: IFS=: read a b <<< "1:2" Between process substitutions (the <(command) thing) and here strings, you should be able to do all your reads without subshells.
