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Re: strange interaction between read command and pipe to less from function

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: linuxtechguy@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: strange interaction between read command and pipe to less from function
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:55:57 +0200
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 4:34 PM Jim <linux.tech.guy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...] a function I am testing [...] has the following read statement which is part of a loop:
>
> for N ({0..255}) {
>   read -s -t1 -d $'\a' $'c?\e]4;'${N}$';?\a' && XC+=("$N ${c##*;}")
> }
>
> The issue is when the output of my function is piped to less.

Both the function and less read from the TTY. Which of them will
succeed when you press a key is anyone's guess.

Roman.

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