Hello, Description: If the nth character of read -n is a \, then bash reads one too many characters.
Repeat-By: echo 'abc\abc' | (read -n 4; echo $REPLY) Additionally, the documentation for 'read' is unclear what happens for \ when -r is not specified in that it does not distinguish between "maximum number of characters read" and "maximum number of characters read into the variable". -Brett _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash