Subject: Bug#547902: Bug #547902: dash only reads the first character from pipe (bash reads whole line)

From: Gioele Barabucci <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:53:04 +0100

Control: tags -1 upstream

This problem is known upstream, see 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/1174>.

The suggested workaround is

     MAX=$(cat /proc/.../file)

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci <[email-masked]>