Perhaps easiest to explain with an example:

$ echo '\&|'
\&|
$ echo '\&|' | while read in; do echo "$in"; done
&|

It seems that the read command is interpreting the backslashes in the input as escapes and is removing them. I need to process a file line by line without changing its contents and I'm not sure how to stop read from being smart here. Any ideas?

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