Question about the 'read' command in bash

[JROZYCKI]

I have a bash shell script with the following lines of code:

#!/bin/bash
uname | cut -c1-4 | read op_sys
echo $op_sys

This works fine at work using SGI IRIX and ksh, but under cygwin and bash
at home, op_sys does not get set - null is echoed.. what do I need to do
differently?

thanks,
Jeff



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