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Re: mapfile doesn't accept input from a pipe


From: Eduardo A . Bustamante López
Subject: Re: mapfile doesn't accept input from a pipe
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:56:33 -0500
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:08:27PM -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>         mapfile REDIRECT < /tmp/input.txt
>         cat /tmp/input.txt | mapfile PIPE

The `mapfile PIPE' is a piece of a pipeline, and as such, it runs in a
subshell (different process).

See: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/024

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Eduardo Bustamante
https://dualbus.me/



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