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From: "Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <237967ef0808110716l2a0a2a4je22c2a1b8c239f57@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808111615260.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

2008/8/11 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>> I found this in git bisect:
>>
>>               printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
>>               case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
>>
>> which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the
>> string reads from std input.
>>
>> Am I missing something ?
>
> Yes.  "$()" does not return the status, but the output.

But there is no output, since read doesn't print anything...
case "$(read yesno; echo $yesno)" in [Nn]*) could work, but looks
a bit strange. read yesno; case $yesno in [Nn]*) would be the usual
way to do things i think?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-11 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-11 13:57 git-bisect: weird usage of read(1) Francis Moreau
2008-08-11 14:15 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-08-11 14:16   ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2008-08-11 14:18   ` Francis Moreau
2008-08-11 15:59     ` Reece Dunn
2008-08-11 16:23       ` Francis Moreau
2008-08-11 16:26         ` Reece Dunn
2008-08-11 16:29           ` Francis Moreau
2008-08-11 16:49       ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-11 17:01         ` René Scharfe
2008-08-11 17:05           ` Petr Baudis
2008-08-11 18:59           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-11 19:47             ` Francis Moreau
2008-08-11 16:18 ` René Scharfe
2008-08-11 17:38   ` Francis Moreau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-11 14:00 Francis Moreau

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