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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 05:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: neal somos <nsomos AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: read command available?
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Jarzombek, Svend asks ...

> Is the read command somewhere available? 
> Up to now I wasn't able to find it.

The read command is supposedly a shell builtin.

Strangely enough, the first time I tried the
example given with ksh, I got the exact same response.

However on later attempts, I got what was expected.
I find this odd.

/bin/sh and bash both handle this just fine.
I can't speak for ksh, but maybe its time to
switch to a different shell?

neal


		
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