On 08/06/2010 00:59, Brian Somers wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:05:48 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote: >> Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> writes: >>> Except read doesn't do it quite right: >>> >>> $ ps | (read a; echo $a ; grep zsh) >>> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND >> >> yeah, I forgot that it drops leading whitespace... > > Well, leading $IFS > > $ ps | (IFS= read a; echo "$a"; grep zsh) > > works a lot better.
As does using sed, which is the right tool for this kind of job anyway. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
