X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <450F649C.3090504@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:31:40 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Read not honouring "-r"? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Irwin, Doug wrote: > All, > > I am working on a script which monitors mounts for free space. > > It does this by reading from a config file (surprise) consisting of > mount, threshold, threshold. > > One would expect a "read -r fs t2 t3" to process this without attempting > to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit working... And I > can't seem to find any doco on doing that in Cygwin. > > I've attached the files I am testing with in the hope that someone can > help me work this out. > > No doubt I have missed something rather obvious. > > Any assistance greatly appreciated! You really only need to send the request once. I guess you're going to need to be more specific about the problem you're seeing. I got: # sh test.sh / 200 200 /c 200 200 /d 200 200 /usr/bin 200 200 /usr/lib 200 200 FWIW, I got the same results on Cygwin and Linux. Perhaps it makes sense to review the problem reporting guidelines before posting any follow-up: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/