From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9519 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 14:40:31 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 14:40:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 14591 invoked by alias); 3 Aug 2000 14:40:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12507 Received: (qmail 14584 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 14:40:22 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:40:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200008031440.QAA22995@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> From: Sven Wischnowsky To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:31:37 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh) Bart Schaefer wrote: > ... > > This happens only when "leftover fields [are] assigned to the last name." > It's consistent with bash. Ash preserves both the inter-field AND the > trailing whitespace in that circumstance, which would lead me to guess > that the original Bourne `read' doesn't strip trailing whitespace. Just for the record: both the sh and the ksh on this box (True64 blahblah) and on Solaris strip them. Bye Sven -- Sven Wischnowsky wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de