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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
Subject: < /dev/null while read a; do :; done
Date: 29 Mar 2002 22:29:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wuvv30s9.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)

I was feeling pretty bad when line 2 didn't work:

while read a; do :; done < /dev/null
< /dev/null while read a; do :; done 
while < /dev/null read a; do :; done 
cat /dev/null|while read a; do :; done 

however it is certainly my conceptual problem, not bash's. 
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