The read command has "-d delim" to read until delimiter delim. I like to have a new option "-P pattern" read until the content matches the pattern "pattern" or until EOF. Currently I can do this only by reading the input stream one character at the time, then concatenate each character and match that against "pattern". This is an incredibly slow way compared to awk's line matching actions.
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