read command available?

Wed Aug 18 16:33:00 GMT 2004

I literally cut and pasted a portion of Svend's post.
The portion I thought I used was ...
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ls | while read TEST
do
 echo $TEST
done
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I asked for 'ksh' and pasted.
I was totally flabbergasted when I got the
exact response Svend had posted.
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Is the read command somewhere available? Up to now I wasn't able to find
it.
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I was intrigued and tried it again, but this
time it worked properly producing the list
of expected file names.
And under sh and bash I would get the expected
list of file names.
That fact that it did not seem to reproduce on subsequent
attempts is puzzling. While such things are possible
I begin to question my sanity when I have trouble
finding what could have printed that message.
Grepping through strings of everything in bin failed
to reveal where this might have come from.
Unfortunately I did one too many exits in the rxvt
shell window, and cannot even go back to ensure
I entered the commands I believe I entered. 
All subsequent attempts have been well behaved.
I fear that I may have been suffering from both
caffeine and sleep insufficiency and cut and pasted 
too much. For the sake of my sanity I hope that someone 
else can reproduce this. 
neal
		
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