On 7/26/13 12:34 PM, David H. wrote: > Bash Version: 4.2 > Patch Level: 45 > Release Status: release > > Description: > > When the read builtin is prefixed by an IFS setting, for field > splitting, and the input involves an unquoted variable expanded inside > a herestring, command substitution, or process substitution, the > contents of the variable are split by that IFS setting before being > read. This results in all input being stored in the first variable. > > It is my understanding that redirection patterns like these should > be considered independent processes and not subject to the environment > settings of the target command. > > The expected behavior appears if a heredoc or compound command is > used. ksh also shows the expected behavior for all attempted patterns.
This was fixed back in January as the result of this report: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-01/msg00041.html The fixes are in the devel branch of the git tree and made it into bash-4.3-alpha. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
