Re: Before there was watch(1) ...

[Страхиња Радић]

Дана 26/05/06 01:29PM, Christian Weisgerber написа:
>       eval "$@" | while IFS= read line; do

Part of the `while ... read` idiom is the `-r` switch, to not strip 
backslashes. So:

        eval "$@" |
        while IFS= read -r line; do
                # ...
        done