pasting into read statement?

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
Why can i not paste into a read statment in bash?
If i do:
read varname
from a bash prompt, the terminal expects input.
when i try to paste a previously marked area, it acts asif nothing were 
marked.Is there a way that i can change the read statement so that paste 
will  work?
TIA
Willem


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