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From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: head behaviour
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On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:05:48 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> w=
rote:
> Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> writes:
> > Except read doesn't do it quite right:
> >
> > $ ps | (read a; echo $a ; grep zsh)
> > PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>=20
> yeah, I forgot that it drops leading whitespace...

Well, leading $IFS

    $ ps | (IFS=3D read a; echo "$a"; grep zsh)

works a lot better.

--=20
Brian Somers                                       <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !            <brian@FreeBSD.org>