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Read a line verbatim

$ IFS= read -r foo <<EOF > this is a \n line >EOF $ printf '%s\n' "$foo" this is a \n line

Read a line, stripping leading and trailing whitespace

$ read -r foo <<EOF > this is a line >EOF $ printf '%s\n' "$foo" this is a line

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