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		gpvos on March 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bash Debugging > looping over `read` is essentially never the right thing to do Why? I do it quite often, though admittedly usually in one-time scripts.

ykonstant on March 2, 2024 [–]

See my reply to qazxcvbnm and study the links carefully if you want to do robust shell scripting.

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