Re: Different variable assignments

On 12.10.2024 13:08, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
  >From your description below I'm not sure you still have a question or
  >whether you're just describing what you intended to do and are fine
  >with ksh's pipeline behavior. (Specifically I'm unsure about the 'B'
  >and what you mean by "sub-command B" in your example(s).)
A spawns B and grabbing the desired information from the common output still doesn't work.
  >The 'tty' command in your 'tee' pipeline command has no tty attached;
  >it reads from the pipe. That's why   A | tee $(tty) | ... | read var
  >doesn't work as you expected. You have to grab the tty information
  >outside the pipeline (as you've experienced).
That was also my understanding after the experience ;) ... but thanks for confirmation.
Regards
fw