From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: RE: About word splitting in read
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:41:38 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006231041.MAA07978@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Andrej Borsenkow"'s message of Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:37:27 +0400
Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> >
> > Errr... in what way does `read -r foo' not do what you want?
> >
>
> Sorry, I was (completely) wrong. The actual problem is not field
> splitting, but rather backslash elimination.
>
> About 'read -r' - manual states, it just does not treat final backslash
> as line continuation. Look:
>
> bor@itsrm2% read -r foo
> a b \
> bor@itsrm2% print $foo
> a b \
>
> but
>
> bor@itsrm2% read -r foo
> q\ g\ b
> bor@itsrm2% print $foo
> q g b
> bor@itsrm2% read -r foo
> q\ g\ b \
> bor@itsrm2% print $foo
> q g b \
>
> Hmm ... is it a bug?
Try `print -r $foo'.
Bye
Sven
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Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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2000-06-23 10:41 Sven Wischnowsky [this message]
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