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

[Surendar Singh Bisht]

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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