From: crandall AT matchlogic DOT com (Charles Randall) Subject: B19.1: bash/sh/ash "read" bug 30 Jul 1998 03:08:22 -0700 Message-ID: <64003B21ECCAD11185C500805F31EC03A85ADC.cygnus.gnu-win32@houston.matchlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Cc: "'cfr AT pobox DOT com'" The "read" builtin in bash/sh/ash doesn't seem to be functioning properly. I suspect this has to do with newline processing on stdin. Anyway, consider the following test script (named test.sh): /bin/echo "Q1 - [y/n] \c" read ans /bin/echo "ans=[$ans]" /bin/echo "Q2 - [y/n] \c" read ans /bin/echo "ans=[$ans]" /bin/echo "Q3 - [y/n] \c" read ans /bin/echo "ans=[$ans]" With bash/sh/ash, I always get the following behavior: bash-2.01$ bash ./test.sh Q1 - [y/n] y ans=[y] Q2 - [y/n] ans=[] Q3 - [y/n] y ans=[y] The second "read" returns nothing as if a newline had been entered. I've tryed just entering "y" followed by either ^J or ^M as a guess. That didn't work either. Same behavior with or without the " \c" in the echo command. This makes configuring Perl a real joy -- I only get a chance to answer every other question from Configure. :^( Suggestions? (I'm not interested in a binary distribution of Perl) Charles - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".