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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:22:20 -0500
To: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle AT yahoo DOT fr>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Newbie: read works incorrectly
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At 10:05 AM 11/22/2000, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:

>--- 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.


Actually I think Art's problem is that he's working from an improper 
supposition.  Just because read will put all the parameters into "line"
doesn't mean that "printf '%s\r\n' $line" will print both parameters.
Try "printf '%s %s\r\n' $line" to get what you expected. 



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