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Script help - reading mulple lines into variables from command execution

 
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Rodney Hills
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‎06-01-2004 06:26 AM

‎06-01-2004 06:26 AM

Re: Script help - reading mulple lines into variables from command execution

& on the end of line means run as a detached process. |& means to run detached, but as a co-process. This allows read -p to get its input from the co-process. Some documentation under "man ksh"

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