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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:49:45 +0200
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Cc: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>,
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To: Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:59:32PM +0100, Reece Dunn wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >>>               case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
> 
> does not work as expected. Replacing this with
> 
>                case "$(read yesno; echo $yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
> 
> would work as intended, as Mikael has pointed out.

  Wouldn't it be more elegant to

	case "$(head -n 1)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis