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getline into a Variable from a CoprocessWhen you use ‘command |& getline var’, the output from
the coprocess command is sent through a two-way pipe to getline
and into the variable var.
In this version of getline, none of the predefined variables are
changed and the record is not split into fields. The only variable
changed is var.
However, RT is set.