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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: read command available?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:46:14 +0200
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"Jarzombek, Svend" wrote:

> I am new to cygwin and try to move some ksh scripts to it.
> I am lacking the read command, e. g. like in
> 
> cd /directory
> ls | while read TEST
> do
>      echo $TEST
> done
> 
> 
> Is the read command somewhere available? Up to now I wasn't able to
> find it. 

ksh:
$ type read
read is a shell builtin

Hmm... are you using it correctly?
Type this at a shell prompt, enter for both lines.
man ksh
/^ *read \[


As I'm not familiar with ksh, so:
-- *bash* usage example --
#!/bin/bash

cd /
ls | (
  while read TEST ;do
    echo -n $TEST 
  done
 )

--
If you find something similar to this:
$ cat abs-guide.url 
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.cs.unibo.it/~montreso/doc/bash/abs-guide.pdf
Modified=F0515A7BC647C401E8

...but slanted for ksh, you might be better off.


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E         --72-->

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