Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Newbie: read works incorrectly To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.1a (Intl) 17 August 1999 Message-ID: From: schwarza@gdls.com Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:53:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on STL01/SRV/LS/GDYN(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 11/22/2000 09:53:22 AM, Itemize by SMTP Server on STLHUB/SRV/LS/GDYN(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 11/22/2000 09:53:22 AM, Serialize by Router on STLHUB/SRV/LS/GDYN(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 11/22/2000 09:53:23 AM, Serialize complete at 11/22/2000 09:53:23 AM Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The following statement: echo one two | while read line ; do printf '%s\r\n' $line done generates one two I would have expected one two from (e.g.) Linux in a Nutshell Second Edition, Feb. 1999 O'Reilly pg 191 and from previous experience. Am I looking at the problem correctly? I assume that "If only one variable is specified, the entire line will be assigned to that variable." from the previous reference. art schwarza@gdls.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com