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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:33:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: neal somos <nsomos AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: read command available?
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, neal somos wrote:

> I literally cut and pasted a portion of Svend's post.
> The portion I thought I used was ...
> ------------------------
> ls | while read TEST
> do
>      echo $TEST
> done
> ------------------------
> 
> I asked for 'ksh' and pasted.
> I was totally flabbergasted when I got the exact response Svend had 
> posted.
> -----------------
> Is the read command somewhere available? Up to now I wasn't able to find
> it.
> -----------------
> 
> I was intrigued and tried it again, but this time it worked properly 
> producing the list of expected file names.
> 
> And under sh and bash I would get the expected list of file names.
> 
> That fact that it did not seem to reproduce on subsequent attempts is 
> puzzling.  While such things are possible I begin to question my sanity 
> when I have trouble finding what could have printed that message. 
> Grepping through strings of everything in bin failed to reveal where 
> this might have come from.
> 
> Unfortunately I did one too many exits in the rxvt shell window, and 
> cannot even go back to ensure I entered the commands I believe I 
> entered.  All subsequent attempts have been well behaved.
> 
> I fear that I may have been suffering from both caffeine and sleep 
> insufficiency and cut and pasted too much.  For the sake of my sanity I 
> hope that someone else can reproduce this.

Hmm, looks like you must have grabbed those lines when you copied...  I 
just tried it, and got the expected file listing.  Go figure...
If someone *is* able to reproduce it, I'd be *very* interested in seeing a 
simple testcase(tm).
	Igor
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