Re: Option for read to handle incomplete last line

[Martin Schulte]

Hi Greg!

> > Nevertheless, am I right that this solution relies on an undocumented 
> > feature?
> 
> Which "undocumented" feature did you have in mind?  Most things are
> documented, somewhere.
> 
> Are you thinking of -d '' signifying NUL as the delimiter?  Chet told
> us that he supports this "happy accident" and won't take it away.
> 
> Are you thinking of the equivalence of "$array" and "${array[0]}"?  I
> think that's documented somewhere, but I'm not going to dig for it right
> now.

Before reading the source I would never have thought that read sets variables 
although it returns FAILURE.

Best regards

Martin