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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Feature request |
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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:08:26 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 1.00 (LRH 882 2007-12-20) |
I would like to see read's -d option expanded to accept a string of
characters, any one of which would terminate input. The character
which terminates input should be stored in a variable, e.g.,
$REPLY_END.
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Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://woodbine-gerrard.com>
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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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