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read

Shell builtin for retrieving data from stdin. More information: https://manned.org/read.1p.
  • Store data that you type from the keyboard:
    read {{variable}}
  • Do not let backslash (\) act as an escape character:
    read -r {{variable}}
  • Read stdin and perform an action on every line:
    while read line; do echo "$line"; done

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