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From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>
Subject: Re: patch for "bizarre read bug" in klibc dash
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:02:25 +0600
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Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Oh, and the original code that found this long ago:
> grep MemFree /proc/meminfo | read J MEMFREE K
> case $MEMFREE in
> ...
> (MEMFREE used several times below)
> 
> Had to convert to:
> 
> MEMFREE=`grep MemFree /proc/meminfo | (READ J M K ; echo $M)`
> case $MEMFREE in
> ...

Pure-shell implementation:

while read J M K ; do
     case "$J" in
     MemFree:)
         MEMFREE="$M"
     esac
done </proc/meminfo
case $MEMFREE in
...

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov