On 1/29/20 10:19 AM, Clint Hepner wrote: > Bash Version: 5.0 > Patch Level: 11 > Release Status: release > > Description: > > read seems to incorrectly drop a null field when performing word-splitting > and more fields than variables. > > All the examples below use > > IFS== read -r n v > > for some input of the form ``name=var...`` > > > The relative bit of the POSIX spec concerns how to set the variables when > there are fewer arguments > to read than there are fields.
There are exactly two variables and two (split) arguments. "The shell shall treat each character of the IFS as a delimiter and use the delimiters as field terminators to split..." https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_06_05 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
