(Please excuse the unfinished last mail, I hit "Ctrl-Enter"
by accident.)
> - echo "text" | read var ; echo $var
> - cat file | read var ; echo $var
> - read var < file | echo $var
.. continuing from last time, all of these won't work
because you're always creating a new subshell.
Try
read var < file ; echo $var
Cheers,
Jan.
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