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Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 11:44:12 -0400
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On 7/2/20 11:10 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:

> I mentioned up-thread:
> 
>> I guess it couldn't hurt to extend that sentence with
>> "without processing".

That's not quite sufficient, unless I change the text to clarify that the
trailing newline, or the delimiter supplied to -d, isn't part of the line
that is processed.

-- 
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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