Shell scripting input redirection oddities

Question

Can anyone explain this behavior? Running:

#!/bin/sh
echo \"hello world\" | read var1 var2
echo $var1
echo $var2

results in nothing being o

Answer 1

A recent addition to bash is the lastpipe option, which allows the last command in a pipeline to run in the current shell, not a subshell, when job control is deactivated.

#!/bin/bash
set +m      # Deactiveate job control
shopt -s lastpipe
echo "hello world" | read var1 var2
echo $var1
echo $var2

will indeed output

hello
world