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Re: In the bash man page the entry for the 'read' command has two spaces after it instead of one.

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Subject Re: In the bash man page the entry for the 'read' command has two spaces after it instead of one.
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Ángel González writes:
> > entering  «/^ *read⤶» may be easier to type (and remember)
> 
> It won't match, though.

It matches fine for me.  Although I suggest adding the square bracket
so as to avoid the other false positives as long as one knows that
read has options documented.  This works.

  /^  *read  *\[

Bob

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Re: In the bash man page the entry for the 'read' command has two spaces after it instead of one. Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> - 2015-08-21 23:49 -0600

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