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Re: builtin "read -d" behaves differently after "set -e#
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: builtin "read -d" behaves differently after "set -e# |
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Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:21:18 -0500 |
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:12:01PM +0100, John Kearney wrote:
> IFS= read -rd '' var2 <<EOF || true
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> should work.
Which is essentially equivalent to doing "set +e" before, and "set -e"
again right after. In either case, you're temporarily working around
the brokenness of set -e for a single command.