Re: Error in read implementation and/or documentation

[Peter Olson]

OK, that makes sense. Sorry for being confused. I thought that by this 
level, ^D and EOF are equivalent. I should be able to check to see if 
the character returned is ^D, then act accordingly.

Peter

On 07/27/2013 03:10 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/27/13 1:32 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> writes:
> >
> > > Cannot reproduce.
> > >
> > >      $ printf 01 | read -n3
> > >      $ echo $?
> > >      1
> > Try the same with input from the terminal.
> You are reading one character at a time, so ICANON is not set and ^D is an
> ordinary character.  It's only `recognized' as EOF when ICANON is set and
> the ^D is typed as the only character on a line.
>
> Chet