Shell scripts - getting parent status in read

[Steve Nuchia]

In article <869 at twwells.uucp> bill at twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>	while true
>	do
>		read foo
>		echo "<$foo>"
>	done

>to see what happens. And what happens is that EOF and newline both
>set foo to a null string.

Try this one:

	while read foo
	do
		echo $foo
	done

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