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Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality |
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Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:57:26 -0500 |
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On 12/20/12 6:21 AM, Fiedler Roman wrote:
> OK, so if I understand correctly, following should be true:
>
> Referring to my e-mail from Mo 17.12.2012 09:35, it seems that you get the
> "hypothetical output", which is correct, while the script on my side produces
> different output.
>
> Hence the bash version from Ubuntu (GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release) on
> my side behaves differently than your bash-4.2.39.
You can't guarantee that the Ubuntu version doesn't have changes beyond the
distributed 4.2.24; my advice is to build your own and see if you get the
same behavior I do.
Chet
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