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\section read read - read line of input into variables
\subsection read-synopsis Synopsis
\fish{syn}
read [OPTIONS] [VARIABLES...]
\endfish
\subsection read-description Description
`read` reads one line from standard
input and stores the result in one or more shell variables.
The following options are available:
- <tt>-c CMD</tt> or <tt>--command=CMD</tt> sets the initial string in the interactive mode command buffer to <tt>CMD</tt>.
- <tt>-g</tt> or <tt>--global</tt> makes the variables global.
- <tt>-l</tt> or <tt>--local</tt> makes the variables local.
- <tt>-m NAME</tt> or <tt>--mode-name=NAME</tt> specifies that the name NAME should be used to save/load the history file. If NAME is fish, the regular fish history will be available.
- <tt>-p PROMPT_CMD</tt> or <tt>--prompt=PROMPT_CMD</tt> uses the output of the shell command \c PROMPT_CMD as the prompt for the interactive mode. The default prompt command is <tt>set_color green; echo read; set_color normal; echo "> "</tt>.
- <code>-s</code> or <code>--shell</code> enables syntax highlighting, tab completions and command termination suitable for entering shellscript code in the interactive mode.
- <code>-u</code> or <code>--unexport</code> prevents the variables from being exported to child processes (default behaviour).
- <code>-U</code> or <code>--universal</code> causes the specified shell variable to be made universal.
- <code>-x</code> or <code>--export</code> exports the variables to child processes.
- <code>-a</code> or <code>--array</code> stores the result as an array.
\c read reads a single line of input from stdin, breaks it into tokens
based on the <tt>IFS</tt> shell variable, and then assigns one
token to each variable specified in <tt>VARIABLES</tt>. If there are more
tokens than variables, the complete remainder is assigned to the last variable.
As a special case, if \c IFS is set to the empty string, each character of the
input is considered a separate token.
If \c -a or \c --array is provided, only one variable name is allowed and the
tokens are stored as an array in this variable.
See the documentation for `set` for more details on the scoping rules for
variables.
\subsection read-example Example
The following code stores the value 'hello' in the shell variable
`$foo`.
`echo hello|read foo`
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