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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash - read white spaces Post 302598112 by Corona688 on Monday 13th of February 2012 11:40:38 AM
Old 02-13-2012
In what way does it 'not work'? It works perfectly fine here:

Code:
echo "    " | while IFS= read -n 1 VAR ; do echo "'$VAR'" ; done
' '
' '
' '
' '
''

Four whitespace characters read one at a time.
 

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GIT-VAR(1)                                                          Git Manual                                                          GIT-VAR(1)

NAME
git-var - Show a Git logical variable SYNOPSIS
git var ( -l | <variable> ) DESCRIPTION
Prints a Git logical variable. OPTIONS
-l Cause the logical variables to be listed. In addition, all the variables of the Git configuration file .git/config are listed as well. (However, the configuration variables listing functionality is deprecated in favor of git config -l.) EXAMPLE
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