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RE: About word splitting in read

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sven Wischnowsky" <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: About word splitting in read
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:37:27 +0400
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>
> Errr... in what way does `read -r foo' not do what you want?
>


Sorry, I was (completely) wrong. The actual problem is not field
splitting, but rather backslash elimination.

About 'read -r' - manual states, it just does not treat final backslash
as line continuation. Look:

bor@itsrm2% read -r foo
a   b   \
bor@itsrm2% print $foo
a   b   \

but

bor@itsrm2% read -r foo
q\ g\ b
bor@itsrm2% print $foo
q g b
bor@itsrm2% read -r foo
q\ g\ b \
bor@itsrm2% print $foo
q g b \

Hmm ... is it a bug?

-andrej

References:
- Re: About word splitting in read
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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