Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:31:17 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised Message-ID: <20020117133117.P2015@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5100B8473B3ED511B22B009027DE29093CF0F4@AKASH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5100B8473B3ED511B22B009027DE29093CF0F4@AKASH> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:34:24PM +0530, Surendar Singh Bisht wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > I'm using bash 2.05.0(8)-release on win98. I'm confronting a small > problem in shell scripts execution while using the built-in "read" function. > > > > But the same script executes smoothly when I run this code on the command > line. 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'. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/