Bash really is a special little snowflake. The space trimming feature, as I recently discovered is made available for all but the implicit REPLY.
$ read -r <<<" TEST "; printf '<%s>\n' "$REPLY" < TEST > $ read -r REPLY <<<" TEST "; printf '<%s>\n' "$REPLY" <TEST> As a heavy user of bash and freenode #bash padawan, I must say that I'd be very in favor of keeping bash out of suckless. It's a good learning instrument wrt this kind of nitpickery which is useful for discussing the C standard, but it's definitely not suckless. cheers! mar77i
