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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shell scripts - getting parent status in read
Message-ID: <7353@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 13:43:42 GMT
References: <861@marvin.Solbourne.COM> <849@twwells.uucp> <866@marvin.Solbourne.COM> <869@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Organization: Houston Public Access
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In article <869@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>	while true
>	do
>		read foo
>		echo "<$foo>"
>	done

>to see what happens. And what happens is that EOF and newline both
>set foo to a null string.

Try this one:

	while read foo
	do
		echo $foo
	done

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