Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 20:21:16 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh script question Message-ID: <20011014202116.J309@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110142248230.23659-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com>; from doug@safeport.com on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:04:09PM -0400 References: <XFMail.20011014201436.conrads@home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110142248230.23659-100000@pemaquid.safeport.com>
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:04:09PM -0400, doug@safeport.com wrote:
> Like magic - thank you.
>
> Do you know why it reads line-wise in this form?
man sh
...
read [-p prompt] [-t timeout] [-er] variable ...
The prompt is printed if the -p option is specified and the stan-
dard input is a terminal. Then a line is read from the standard
input.
...
There is much more detail on the read built-in on the manpage.
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