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Re: Possible bug when combining Bash's process substitution with HERE-do
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Possible bug when combining Bash's process substitution with HERE-document? |
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Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:31:40 -0400 |
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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:
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> read -d '' -r foobar || true <<BARFOO
> bla bla
> BARFOO
You have constructed a command where `read' will wait forever for terminal
input and `true' will run with a here-document as its input. Change the
first line to
read -d '' -r foobar <<BARFOO || true
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