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======Command read======

====Name====
**read** Reads one line from stdin and assigns to variables

====Synopsis====
**read** var1 [var2 ... varn]


Reads one line from stdin, splits the line into fields using any of the charactors in the IFS variable (default space,tab),
and assigns the values to the specified variables.

Example:
%%
read a b <<EOF
string1 string2
EOF
echo $a $b
%%
Result
%%
string1 string2
%%
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