Re: How does a pipe works?

["Pramode C.E" <iclabs@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, RK Patil wrote:

> Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > When you run the command, it actually waits for reading from standard
> > input. But despite of that nothing comes in var, that you type is probably
> > because a \n that echo prints. Not sure on this...
> 

	If you use ps and strace -p on another console while
read foo|echo hello is running, you will find that 'read foo'
is running in a subshell. Naturally, foo will not be set in
the parent shell.
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