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From: Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>
Subject: Re: Reading output into variables
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 11:32:31 +0000 (UTC)
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Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> wrote:
>
> program | read a b
>
> minus the subshell.

In zsh or bash:

read a b < <(program)

In POSIX (hence also in zsh or bash):

read a b <<END
$(program)
END