Subject: RE: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "re ad" function -- Options not recognised
From: Surendar Singh Bisht <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:33:10 +0530

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:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 7:52 PM
To: [email-masked]
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    [email-masked]    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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