On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 15:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I went to "man read", and it says the only valid option is "-r", there is not "-t" option. This is in conflict on what "man bash" says for the "read" entry. Strange....on my 9.1 system, "man read" says:
read [-ers] [-u fd] [-t timeout] [-a aname] [-p prompt]
[-n nchars] [-d delim] [name ...]
One line is read from the standard input, or from
the file descriptor fd supplied as an argument to
the -u option, and the first word is assigned to
the first name, the second word to the second name,
and so on, with leftover words and their interven
ing separators assigned to the last name. If there
are fewer words read from the input stream than
names, the remaining names are assigned empty val
ues. The characters in IFS are used to split the
line into words. The backslash character (\) may
be used to remove any special meaning for the next
character read and for line continuation. Options,
if supplied, have the following meanings:
I'm just installing 10.0 on another system, so I can't see what "man
read" says there.
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Jim Cunning