On Thursday, August 28, 2025, Kevin Pulo <kevin.p...@mongodb.com> wrote: > > I have a lot of control
Good. It's easier to change the input than change Bash and wait for another release (which might take more than a year). > I could instead force some special way of representing a blank line, eg. > "<blank>", but then code which processes each word separately will need to > be > more complex than the current: > > for word in $line; do > ... > done > > unless the "special blank line" is "one or more spaces/tabs". But even > then, > care needs to be taken to ensure that a space gets output instead of a pure > blank line. > It's hard to suggest a workaround without seeing the full picture but this seems like your best bet. This or storing the input in a temporary file and consuming it line by line instead of slurping it all at once. -- Oğuz
