Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin

[M. Nejat AYDIN]

On 7/2/20 6:08 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/2/20 11:06 AM, M. Nejat AYDIN wrote:
>
> > I think now that it was intentional to make it possible
> > to read a line as is, without having to modify the IFS variable.
>
> This is the case.
>
> > The wording does not reflect the intention clearly, in my opinion.
>
> How would you change it to make that more clear?

Perhaps by appending "without word splitting" or words to that effect