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Subject: read command available?
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:17:14 +0200
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From: "Jarzombek, Svend" <Svend.Jarzombek@alcoa.com>
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I am new to cygwin and try to move some ksh scripts to it.
I am lacking the read command, e. g. like in

cd /directory
ls | while read TEST
do
     echo $TEST
done


Is the read command somewhere available? Up to now I wasn't able to find
it.

TIA

Svend

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