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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:05:59 +0100 (CET)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sylvain=20Petreolle?= <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>
Subject: Re: Newbie: read works incorrectly
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--- schwarza AT gdls DOT com a écrit : > 
> 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
> 
The '\r\n' statement tells to printf to inser a new
line, then remove it.



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