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RE: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised
- From: Surendar Singh Bisht <suren at duncaninfotech dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, chet at po dot CWRU dot Edu
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:33:10 +0530
- Subject: RE: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised
Corinna Thanks !! & Thanks Chet!!
The Workaround is doing great.
Now the things are back in the places.
Warm Regards
Suren
-----Original Message-----
From: Chet Ramey [mailto:chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu]
Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 7:52 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in
"read" function -- Options not recognised
> The script is running under sh which is ash, not bash. ash doesn't
> know these `read' options. As workaround prepend
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> to your script or start it via `bash -c script'.
Why the `-c'? `bash script' should work just fine.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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