tldr/pages/common/read.md

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read

Shell builtin for retrieving data from stdin. More information: https://manned.org/read.1p.

  • Store data that you type from the keyboard:

read {{variable}}

  • Do not let backslash (\) act as an escape character:

read -r {{variable}}

  • Read stdin and perform an action on every line:

while read line; do echo "$line"; done