From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3130 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2000 06:50:18 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 Aug 2000 06:50:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 15990 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2000 06:50:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12446 Received: (qmail 15963 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2000 06:50:02 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "ZSH workers mailing list" Subject: RE: About word splitting in read (Zsh) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:49:56 +0400 Message-ID: <001401bffb84$b40f9c40$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <001001bffb7b$0f58cbd0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > > Sorry to bother you, but I'm not sure how to use Mailing-Lists. I found > > a message of yours while looking through a Zsh archive on the web. > > > > I wanted a version of read which didn't perform word splitting, but > > `read -r' > > still does one thing I'm trying to prevent: it removes leading whitespace. > > I'm hoping to preserve all whitespace (a true raw mode). And trailing spaces as well. -andrej