head behaviour

[Brian Somers]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:05:48 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> writes:
> > Except read doesn't do it quite right:
> >
> > $ ps | (read a; echo $a ; grep zsh)
> > PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
> 
> yeah, I forgot that it drops leading whitespace...

Well, leading $IFS

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

works a lot better.

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Brian Somers                                       <brian at Awfulhak.org>
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