Newbie: read works incorrectly

[Sylvain Petreolle]

--- schwarza@gdls.com a écrit : > 
> The following statement:
> 
>       echo one two | while read line ; do
>          printf '%s\r\n' $line
>       done
> 
> generates
> 
>       one
>       two
> 
> I would have expected
> 
>       one two
> 
The '\r\n' statement tells to printf to inser a new
line, then remove it.



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