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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:31:17 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:34:24PM +0530, Surendar Singh Bisht wrote:
> 
>  Hi everybody!
> 
>          I'm using bash 2.05.0(8)-release on win98. I'm confronting a small
> problem in shell scripts execution while using the built-in "read" function.
> 
> 
> 
> But the same script executes smoothly when I run this code on the command
> line.

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'.

Corinna

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