Re: [Help-bash] Is there a construct in bash that can replace cat?

[Eduardo A . Bustamante López]

> while read -r; do echo "$REPLY"; done
Actually, a better approximation would be:

while read -r; do printf %s\\n "$REPLY"; done
[[ "$REPLY" ]] && printf %s "$REPLY"

(test with 'a\nb\nc\nd' and 'a\nb\n-n\nd')