<div dir="ltr">I tried fiddling with IFS to no avail. I just changed it like this:<div>IFS='</div><div>'</div><div>And now the readers show all kinds of gibberish! All lines have no whitespace, save for the newline at the end. I'm assuming it's at the end. </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Robert Keizer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@keizer.ca" target="_blank">robert@keizer.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Have you tried setting IFS ( field sep )? Also you could enable raw mode with -r. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Can you share the script?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Are the same lines failing repeatedly?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Rob</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 2014-03-01 11:55 AM, "Kevin McGregor" <<a href="mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr">I have a main script which writes to a named pipe. Before it starts writing, it starts two other scripts which read from this pipe. The reading and writing is a list of file names, one per line. How do I ensure that each script reads one complete line from the pipe at a time (no more, no less)?<div>
<br></div><div>I have a test set up, and it usually works, but sometimes a reader will get a blank line or just a "/" (but not any other part of a line)!</div><div><br></div><div>Kevin</div></div>
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