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Re: Bash "bug" - in "read -e -r var"
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash "bug" - in "read -e -r var" |
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Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:40:28 -0500 |
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On 12/15/14, 7:11 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> I understand that read's now basically useless behavior without -r
> was originally there to make using it interactively without a line editor
> slightly easier.
Ask David Korn, since he originally added options to the read builtin.
None of the `pure' Bourne shells ever had it. It may be the case that
it was easier to use \ to enter characters that were special to word
splitting, since without it it's very difficult to read values containing
spaces when using more than one variable.
Chet
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