* < /dev/null while read a; do :; done
@ 2002-03-29 14:29 Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2002-03-29 14:29 UTC (permalink / 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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