I would find it very useful to allow a string of delimiters to be used with 'read -d', with any member of the string terminating the input and the character used being stored in a variable, e.g. READ_DELIM.
-- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
