shell --- while

Question

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when I do something like this,I got a question:

yi@yi:~$ cat ids.txt
CDS
chromosome
exon
five_prime_UTR
gene
mRNA
scaffold
three_prime_UTR

# this way has a result
yi@yi:~$ while read line; do arr1[++i]=$line;done < ids.txt
yi@yi:~$ echo ${arr1[@]}
CDS chromosome exon five_prime_UTR gene mRNA scaffold three_prime_UTR

# but this one -- nothing!!!
yi@yi:~$ cat ids.txt | while read line;do arr2[++i]=$line;done
yi@yi:~$ echo ${arr2[@]}

yi@yi:~$

why!!!!

Answer 1

[Sam]

This should answer you question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4642191/read-line-by-line-in-bash-script

Essentially, when you do piping |, you want read CMD instead of read line