Re: non-blocking stdin from bash

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 12:34:08PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:

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> Turns out I had mis-read your first reply as "-t 1", chiefly because

Ah, I see.

> that was all that I had found before posting here.  What now works for
> me avoids the -t param:
> 
> 
> while read stdin_line
> do
>    MSG=$MSG"\n"$stdin_line
> done < /dev/stdin

This will block in the read as long as the line isn't yet terminated.
But of course fine, if it rocks your boat :-)

> Thanks again,

Hey. You're welcome

Cheers
- -- tomás
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