On 6/19/14, 6:00 PM, Tim Friske wrote:
> When I try to explicitly return success in case read fails because of
> EOF the script indefinitely waits:
>
> read -d '' -r foobar || true <<BARFOO
> bla bla
> BARFOO
You have constructed a command where `read' will wait forever for terminal
input and `true' will run with a here-document as its input. Change the
first line to
read -d '' -r foobar <<BARFOO || true
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