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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:22:05 -0500
From: Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu>
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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X-In-Reply-To:  Message from cygwin AT cygwin DOT com of Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:31:17 +0100 (id <20020117133117 DOT P2015 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de>)

> 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'.

Why the `-c'?  `bash script' should work just fine.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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