Re: pipes and sub-shells

[Martijn Dekker]

Op 22-03-17 om 10:12 schreef Jean Delvare:
> Concretely, the customer's code looks like this:
> 
> command | while read line
> do
>       if <condition>
>       then
>               exit
>       fi
>       process $line
> done
[...]
> I was wondering if there is any other trick you can suggest that would work 
> in mksh?

A here-string with a command substitution:

while read line
do
        if <condition>
        then
                exit
        fi
        process $line
done <<<$(command)

Hope this helps,

- M.