Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: read -u how to Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:01:40 +0200 Message-ID: From: cygwin DOT 20 DOT maillinglist AT spamgourmet DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spamgourmet: X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi folks I have the problem that I like to use read -u to read from file. The following script was stored under $HOME/bin/h ---------------------------------- #!/bin/bash set -xv ls -l $HOME/bin/h 3<$HOME/bin/h while read -u 3 do echo $REPLY done ---------------------------------- The output of a run is ---------------------------------- ls -l $HOME/bin/h 3: ls -l /cygdrive/c/home/bin/h -rwx------+ 1 F.Braunbeck Domänen-Benutzer 101 Oct 24 17:52 /cygdrive/c/home/bin/h 3<$HOME/bin/h while read -u 3 do echo $REPLY done 6: read -u 3 /cygdrive/c/home/bin/h: line 6: read: 3: invalid file descriptor: Bad file descriptor --------------------------------- How can I get it work so that no "Bad file descriptor" error comes out IMPORTANT I will read replies only from the mailing list. If you send me email directly it will be deleted. Regards Franz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/