Re: Strange behaviour of read builtin

[M. Nejat AYDIN]

On 7/2/20 6:50 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/2/20 11:19 AM, M. Nejat AYDIN wrote:
> > Perhaps by appending "without word splitting" or words to that effect
>
> Kind of, but what read does isn't exactly word splitting in the presence
> of fewer variable arguments than words read.
>
> Maybe something like "the line read, without the ending delimiter but
> otherwise unmodified, is assigned to the variable REPLY."

I agree. It is reasonably concise and reflects the intention clearly.