[buug] loops and pipe sinks are subshells, aaaargh

[Ian Zimmerman]

> [34]matica:~$ echo bar > baz
> [35]matica:~$ foo=1
> [36]matica:~$ cat baz | while read line ; do foo=$line ; done
> [37]matica:~$ echo $foo
> 1

Tony> Well, a pipe does need two processes so you can have concurrent
Tony> execution, otherwise you'd have a MSDOS-style pipe

But bash creates 3 processes in this case.  There is a subshell where
the while .. done executes.  And I'm sure this is mandated by POSIX.

Anyway, as I wrote I'm just interested in solutions :-P Right now I use
temporary files which is ugly as sin.

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