A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised

[Chet Ramey]

> 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.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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