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 BARFOO
bla bla
BARFOO
read returns failure
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 BARFOO
bla bla
BARFOO
You have constructed a command where `read' will wait forever for terminal
input and `true'
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 is
