On 12/15/14, 7:11 AM, Dan Douglas wrote: > I'm generally interested in what read with (or without) -r combined with -e > even means.
I'm not sure what you're driving at. The -e option says how to read the line; the -r option affects how the characters are processed after being read. -- ``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/