On Thursday, June 30, 2016, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > In shell scripts it is sometimes useful to be able to read > exactly N bytes from a pipe. Doing this portably turns out > to be surprisingly difficult. > > We want a solution that: > > - is portable > > - never reads more than N bytes due to buffering (which > would mean those bytes are not available to the next > program to read from the same pipe) > > - handles partial reads by looping until N bytes or read s/or/are/ > (or we see EOF) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html