[Gllug] Tab-complete and cursor keys in SSH sessions?

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Sep 30 18:24:29 UTC 2009


On 30 Sep 2009, Tethys verbalised:
> Nix writes:
>>Use <, and you'll only get the first line.
>
> Errr... no:
>
> 	while read -r FOO; do ...; done < blah

Depends on the shell. (Also depends, in some cases, on the contents of
the loop, yes pdksh I'm looking at *you* you buggy POS.)

> works just fine on every line in blah. Also, upper case variable
> names. Tsk, tsk. That's bad form.

I dunno, I see it in shell scripts all the time. (But only in shell
scripts.). I guess I've got used to it.
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