Re: no trailing newline causes read to fail

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:11:41PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com> wrote:
> >     At the end of the loop '$line' is empty (i.e. the last line is lost).
> 
> See entry E4 in the bash FAQ.
[...]

No, E4 is about read being run in a subshell. OP's problem is
for read on non-text input (an unterminated line causes read to
exit with a non-zero exit status).

-- 
Stephane

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