On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:00:02AM +0200, Tim Friske wrote:
> While searching for an alternative I came up with the following code
> which does not work when I have the "shopt -os errexit" command line
> at the top of my script:
>
> read -d '' -r foobar < bla bla
> BARFOO
read returns "failure" b
On 6/19/14, 6:00 PM, Tim Friske wrote:
> When I try to explicitly return success in case read fails because of
> EOF the script indefinitely waits:
>
> read -d '' -r foobar || true < bla bla
> BARFOO
You have constructed a command where `read' will wait forever for terminal
input and `true' will
On 6/19/14, 6:47 PM, Ian Kelling wrote:
> The doc says "When matching a pathname, the slash character
> must always be matched explicitly." Shortly thereafter, in the next
> paragraph of the same section, GLOBIGNORE is described, which does not
> treat / as special, but this is not mentioned, and
