On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, David C. Rankin wrote:-
That was the trick I was looking for! Are you sure someone didn't install a BASH processor inside you head when you were asleep! Thanks David.
Not that I know of. I just had a quick look on Google using the search terms "bash reading text no eol". The second link was to a thread in the comp.unix.shell newsgroup where this situation was described, and the reason for the behaviour is given. I just used that to create my own possible solution. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s SUSE 10.1 32 | | openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | openSUSE 10.2 64b | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org