Re: dash: read does not ignore trailing spaces

[Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:37:17PM +0100, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> I am forwarding a bug [1] reported by a Debian user: `read` does not
> ignore trailing spaces. The current version of dash is affected by
> this bug.

> A simple test from the original reporter:

>     $ dash -c 'echo "  a b  " | { read v ; echo "<$v>" ; }'
>     <a b  >

>     $ bash -c 'echo "  a b  " | { read v ; echo "<$v>" ; }'
>     <a b>

> Other shells like posh and mksh behave like bash.

> This error is reproducible with dash 0.5.7 and with the current master
> git master branch, commit 2e5842258bd5b252ffdaa630db09c9a19a9717ca.

> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/794965

This is a valid bug. Note that it only occurs when there are more fields
than variables. For example,
  dash -c 'echo "  a  " | { read v ; echo "<$v>" ; }'
correctly prints <a>.

Since dash has its own code for read's splitting, it is not possible to
take a fix from NetBSD or FreeBSD sh, other than by replacing the
splitting code completely with their version.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker