On 6/20/17 8:25 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> * "The man page of bash reads: '-d delim The first character of > [...] > > It's not in the man page.
-d delim The first character of delim is used to terminate the input line, rather than newline. If delim is the empty string, read will terminate a line when it reads a NUL character. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/