On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Martin Kühne <mysat...@gmail.com> wrote: > As with read's -r flag, use <<'EOF' unless silly/potentially > devastating side effects are desired.
To add on to this, if reading lines, use IFS= as well so you don't lose leading/trailing whitespace. e.g.: while IFS= read -r line; do something with "$line" done < file