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From: | M. Nejat AYDIN |
Subject: | Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin |
Date: | Thu, 2 Jul 2020 19:28:55 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 |
On 7/2/20 6:50 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 7/2/20 11:19 AM, M. Nejat AYDIN wrote:Perhaps by appending "without word splitting" or words to that effectKind of, but what read does isn't exactly word splitting in the presence of fewer variable arguments than words read. Maybe something like "the line read, without the ending delimiter but otherwise unmodified, is assigned to the variable REPLY."
I agree. It is reasonably concise and reflects the intention clearly.
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