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-====== Field splitting, white-space trimming, and other input processing ======
-When not to use the **-r** option:
-  * **-r**:  Prevents backslash interpretation (usually used as a backslash newline pair, to continue over multiple lines or to escape the delimiters).
-    * Without this option, any unescaped backslashes in the input will be discarded.
-    * You should almost always use the **-r** option with read.
-The most common exception to this rule is when **-e** is used, which uses Readline to obtain the line from an interactive shell.
-  * In that case, tab completion will add backslashes to escape spaces and such, and you do not want them to be literally included in the variable.
-  * This would never be used when reading anything line-by-line, though, and **-r** should always be used when doing so.
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