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Re: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh)

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From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:40:18 +0200 (MET DST)
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:31:37 +0000
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> ...
> 
> This happens only when "leftover fields [are] assigned to the last name."
> It's consistent with bash.  Ash preserves both the inter-field AND the
> trailing whitespace in that circumstance, which would lead me to guess
> that the original Bourne `read' doesn't strip trailing whitespace.

Just for the record: both the sh and the ksh on this box (True64
blahblah) and on Solaris strip them.

Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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