Hello,
> This is fixed in 3.1,
Looking at the release notes, I'm not sure how I missed this. Sorry
for the noise.
> Presumably, without -r, the backslash is not considered a
> character, it is an escape mechanism.
Ok. I just thought perhaps the docs could be clarified to mention t
Hello,
This is a resend of a message I sent back in May since I never
received a reply to that message.
-Brett
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From: Brett Kail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 18, 2005 9:17 PM
Subject: read -n is confused by \
To: bug-bash@gnu.org
Hello,
Descr
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 betw
