X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:23:14 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 1.7.5: Bug with bash read in /etc/profile.d invocation From: Steven Collins To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Look at /etc/profile where it runs the profile.d scripts. The scripts are run with standard input redirected to a here document generated by a find command. That is the source of the "/etc/profile.d/xinit.sh" you're seeing as the answer. The "read" statement in your script is actually consuming one of the arguments intended to be processed by the "read" in /etc/profile. Because the scripts are sourced by the current shell your "#!" line has no affect ("-x" isn't getting set.) In other words, the shell is doing exactly what it has been told to do. Don't use a read in your profile.d scripts unless you make sure to reroute standard input back to the terminal. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:16, Garber, Dave (GE Infra, Energy, Non-GE) <> w= rote: > #!/usr/bin/bash -x > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0echo In p.sh > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0read -p "How are you today? " Ans > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0echo Ans is $Ans -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple