New year greetings from Sweden! Below you find an issue that I have no intention/wish to discuss further, I just wish to bring it forth to make it get a "known issue" status. Reply-to set to bug-bash
Expected result: $ echo "a b c d e f g" | \ ( while read first second ;do echo "got $first" ;done ) got a The above works when IFS is set as in $ echo -n "$IFS" | od -t x1z 0000000 20 09 0a > ..< 0000003 Problem: If I understand the "$ help read" text correctly the following variation should work, but it doesn't and additionally displays a "totally off" error message. $ echo "a b c d e f g" | \ ( IFS=" " while read first remainder ;do echo "got $first" ;done ) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do' $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Tested on a two month old Gentoo and on a fresh cygwin (www.cygwin.com) with the same bash version. /H -- _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
