Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <5100B8473B3ED511B22B009027DE29093CF16C@AKASH> From: Surendar Singh Bisht To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Corinna Vinschen , chet@po.CWRU.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 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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@nike.ins.cwru.edu] Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 7:52 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.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@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/