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

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From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:42:33 +0400
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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.
> 

Same here.

-andrej

References:
- Re: PATCH: Re: FW: About word splitting in read (Zsh)
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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