commit bash-20200630 snapshot

doc/bash.1

@@ -9339,7 +9339,9 @@ Read input from file descriptor \fIfd\fP.
 .PP
 If no
 .I names
-are supplied, the line read is assigned to the variable
+are supplied, the line read,
+without the ending delimiter but otherwise unmodified,
+is assigned to the variable
 .SM
 .BR REPLY .
 The exit status is zero, unless end-of-file is encountered, \fBread\fP

doc/bashref.texi

@@ -4584,12 +4584,6 @@ are used to split the line into words using the same rules the shell
 uses for expansion (described above in @ref{Word Splitting}).
 The backslash character @samp{\} may be used to remove any special
 meaning for the next character read and for line continuation.
-If no names are supplied, the line read is assigned to the
-variable @env{REPLY}.
-The exit status is zero, unless end-of-file is encountered, @code{read}
-times out (in which case the status is greater than 128),
-a variable assignment error (such as assigning to a readonly variable) occurs,
-or an invalid file descriptor is supplied as the argument to @option{-u}.
 
 Options, if supplied, have the following meanings:
 
@@ -4666,6 +4660,15 @@ The exit status is greater than 128 if the timeout is exceeded.
 Read input from file descriptor @var{fd}.
 @end table
 
+If no @var{name}s are supplied, the line read,
+without the ending delimiter but otherwise unmodified,
+is assigned to the
+variable @env{REPLY}.
+The exit status is zero, unless end-of-file is encountered, @code{read}
+times out (in which case the status is greater than 128),
+a variable assignment error (such as assigning to a readonly variable) occurs,
+or an invalid file descriptor is supplied as the argument to @option{-u}.
+
 @item readarray
 @btindex readarray
 @example

doc/version.texi

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @end ignore
 
-@set LASTCHANGE Tue Jun 16 16:24:45 EDT 2020
+@set LASTCHANGE Thu Jul  2 09:04:32 EDT 2020
 
 @set EDITION 5.1
 @set VERSION 5.1
 
-@set UPDATED 16 June 2020
-@set UPDATED-MONTH June 2020
+@set UPDATED 2 July 2020
+@set UPDATED-MONTH July 2020