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From: Surendar Singh Bisht <suren AT duncaninfotech DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu
Subject: RE: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "re
	ad" function -- Options not recognised
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:33:10 +0530
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Corinna Thanks !! & Thanks Chet!!

The Workaround is doing great.

Now the things are back in the places.

Warm Regards
Suren


-----Original Message-----
From: Chet Ramey [mailto:chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 7:52 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in
"read" function -- Options not recognised


> 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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