Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:01:15PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
> Petr Baudis schrieb:
> > 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
> 
> Only if head is a built-in, otherwise you fork needlessly.  Not that
> this is a performance critical part, but I wouldn't call it "elegant".

Ok, exec head -n 1. ;) And yes, I know... I guess I've just spent too
much time perl-golfing lately.

> What's wrong with the following variant, already used a few lines up in
> the file?
> 
> 	read yesno
> 	case "$yesno" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

Nothing wrong with this one, of course.

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