Newbie: read works incorrectly
schwarza@gdls.com
schwarza@gdls.com
Wed Nov 22 06:57:00 GMT 2000
Sorry:
Win95
Pentium Pro
128Mb Memory
11 Nov vrs. of Cygwin (DLL 1.1.5 upgrade)
GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
The following statement executed in a login shell:
echo one two | while read line ; do
printf '%s\r\n' $line
done
generates
one
two
I would have expected
one two
from (e.g.)
Linux in a Nutshell
Second Edition, Feb. 1999
O'Reilly
pg 191
and from previous experience.
Am I looking at the problem correctly? I assume that
"If only one variable is specified, the entire line
will be assigned to that variable." from the previous
reference.
art
schwarza@gdls.com
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