From: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:18:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0808110718x2f63608ga3d2d77e317ce4eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808111615260.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
Hello
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>> I found this in git bisect:
>>
>> printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
>> case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
>>
>> which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the
>> string reads from std input.
>>
sorry I should have said that there's a status but no output...
>> Am I missing something ?
>
> Yes. "$()" does not return the status, but the output.
>
But what's the output in that case ?
--
Francis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-11 14:19 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
2008-08-11 14:18 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
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
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2008-08-11 14:00 Francis Moreau
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