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#1 Re: bash read/readline prepopulation questions Posted by drgraefy (216.254.xx.xx) on Tue 4 Mar 2008 at 18:55 so I notice that the "echo -n foo | read.." line produces an error, and the redirect from file does not. read is probably complaining about the lack of newline in the echo bit, which is presumably why it's not returning the stdin into the output variable. anyway, it's still a real shame as far as I'm concerned, since it means that the bash read is probably not able to do what I want: prepopulate a read input field with data. still looking for other ideas, if they're out there.
so I notice that the "echo -n foo | read.." line produces an error, and the redirect from file does not. read is probably complaining about the lack of newline in the echo bit, which is presumably why it's not returning the stdin into the output variable.
anyway, it's still a real shame as far as I'm concerned, since it means that the bash read is probably not able to do what I want: prepopulate a read input field with data. still looking for other ideas, if they're out there.
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