Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin

[M. Nejat AYDIN]

On 7/2/20 2:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Hmm, not in the man page.  In the man page, they're in two widely
> separated paragraphs.  All of the options (-a aname, -d delim, ...)
> lie in between them.

I can confirm that. The man page is a bit clearer than the web page.

> I have no objection to clarifying the wording, mind you.  I simply
> pointed out where it's documented, since you explicitly asked that.

I got it. I had first thought that that behaviour of the read builtin
was accidental. I think now that it was intentional to make it possible
to read a line as is, without having to modify the IFS variable.
The wording does not reflect the intention clearly, in my opinion.