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@ 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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