From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:24:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.04 beta 6a
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> 	open a piped command as a file: "echo #foo|"
> 	read one line from the piped file handle
> 	print the results of the read
> 	close the file handle
> 
> Well, under DJGPP "echo #foo|" produces a blank line from the first 
> read, rather than just "#foo".  When I patched the test to use the 
> modified command "echo \\#foo|", then the first read got "#foo" as a 
> result.

Do you have a testcase so I can look into this?

Mark