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* read: update page --------- Co-authored-by: K.B.Dharun Krishna <kbdharunkrishna@gmail.com>
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# read
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> Shell builtin for retrieving data from `stdin`.
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> More information: <https://manned.org/read.1p>.
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- Store data that you type from the keyboard:
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`read {{variable}}`
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- Do not let backslash (\\) act as an escape character:
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`read -r {{variable}}`
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- Read `stdin` and perform an action on every line:
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`while read line; do echo "$line"; done`
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