Re: no trailing newline causes read to fail

[Paul Jarc]

Stephane Chazelas <Stephane_Chazelas@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> The example he gave actually didn't involve a sub-process. He must
> have ommited the important thing, he probably used
>
> paste /tmp/f | while read line; do ...; done

Something like that was included in the message, after the part you
(correctly) replied to.

>   It's true that most shells set the variable when the input line
>   is not terminated. But with some versions of ksh, it is
>   truncated:

Interesting, thanks.


paul