A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1920 ====================================================================== Reported By: stephane Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1 Issue ID: 1920 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Omission Severity: Objection Priority: normal Status: New Name: Stephane Chazelas Organization: User Reference: Section: read utility, stdin section Page Number: 3321 Line Number: 112915 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2025-04-21 07:16 UTC Last Modified: 2025-04-24 15:43 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: read -d '' on invalid text without -r and IFS= ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0007152) dwheeler (reporter) - 2025-04-24 15:43 https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1920#c7152 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The standard already advises in APPLICATION USAGE: "portable applications need to specify −r whenever they specify −d delim (and delim is not <newline>)." Ah, thank you. I missed that. I guess that technically deals with the -d '' case, because users are supposed to specify -r as well. It's kind of a footgun, as it's easy for users to specify -d without -r, but I get it. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2025-04-21 07:16 stephane New Issue 2025-04-21 07:30 stephane Note Added: 0007139 2025-04-21 07:38 stephane Note Edited: 0007139 2025-04-22 14:46 geoffclare Note Added: 0007140 2025-04-22 15:20 hvd Note Added: 0007141 2025-04-22 18:45 chet_ramey Note Added: 0007142 2025-04-23 14:59 dwheeler Note Added: 0007143 2025-04-23 16:47 stephane Note Added: 0007144 2025-04-23 16:57 stephane Note Added: 0007145 2025-04-23 19:53 dwheeler Note Added: 0007146 2025-04-24 10:54 geoffclare Note Added: 0007147 2025-04-24 10:55 geoffclare Note Edited: 0007147 2025-04-24 11:00 geoffclare Note Added: 0007148 2025-04-24 11:23 stephane Note Added: 0007149 2025-04-24 12:18 stephane Note Added: 0007150 2025-04-24 15:43 dwheeler Note Added: 0007152 ======================================================================
