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This is an old revision of CommandRead made by DavidLee on 2008-05-31 18:15:44.

 

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
string1 string2
$


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