read(1) garbage when input redirected from make incorrectly

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> writes:
> $ read DESTDIR SRCCONF < /usr/bin/make -V DESTDIR -V SRCCONF

The LHS of < is a command, the RHS is the name of the file to be read.
After that, you can have further redirections, a command separator
(semicolon, single or double ampersand, single or double pipe etc.), or,
depending on context, various other stuff such as a paren, bracket,
backquote etc.

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