Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:08:19AM +0300, M. Nejat AYDIN wrote:
> On 7/1/20 2:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > How else would you interpret "the line read is assigned to the variable
> > REPLY"?  Read the line, assign it to the variable.  Do not pass Go,
> > do not perform IFS whitespace trimming.
> 
> Fair enough. The paragraph in which that sentence occurs contains also such
> sentences that read: "One line is read from the standard
> input,[...] split into words as described above in Word Splitting[...]"
> and "The characters in the value of the IFS variable are used to split
> the line into words [...] described above in Word Splitting".

Hmm, not in the man page.  In the man page, they're in two widely
separated paragraphs.  All of the options (-a aname, -d delim, ...)
lie in between them.

I have no objection to clarifying the wording, mind you.  I simply
pointed out where it's documented, since you explicitly asked that.