From: micheles AT rmchost DOT bristol DOT st DOT com (Michele Sardo)
Subject: bash and read function
10 Apr 1998 09:46:16 -0700
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Hi,

I've installed Cygnus WIN32 B19 package on NT 4.0 SP3 machine.
Running the bash on NT window give me some trouble with the
read builtin function.
If I do two read consecutively the first one is completed OK while the
second one return immediately
setting to nothing the variable.

> Cygnus Cygwin32 B19
> Read .bashrc
> bash-2.01$ read xx
> Hello
> bash-2.01$ echo $xx
> Hello
> bash-2.01$ read xx
> bash-2.01$ echo $xx
> 
> bash-2.01$

Doing the same experiment on an rxvt window under an Xserver will work
OK.

Does someone know what is wrong?

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Michele Sardo
STMicroelectronics
Torre Galiera, Strada Statale 114, 95121 Catania, Italy ?
email: micheles AT bristol DOT st DOT com
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