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'read -p' in ash
- From: "Jerry D. Hedden" <jdhedden at cpan dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:35:01 -0500
- Subject: 'read -p' in ash
According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'.
However, the following:
#!/bin/ash
read -p'Hit <CR> to exit: ' x
produces:
read: Illegal option -p
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
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