Carlos, On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:00, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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It is indeed strange. I have:
READ(P) POSIX Programmer's Manual
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So the separate man page read(1) has dissapeared, it refers the reader to bash(1) instead, and then read(1p) might be obsolete. That must be why you are getting a different page than me.
What do you get from this command: % apropos read |egrep -i '^read \(1' read (1) [bashbuiltins] - bash built-in commands, see bash(1) read (1p) - read a line from standard input
I have tried your piece of code, and I suppose I get the "wrong" result. Each time I do " echo hello >> fifo" I get:
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Which shell do you use? BASH also has many operational options, though offhand I don't see one that should effect the read command's ability to effectively implement the semantics of its "-t" option.
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Randall Schulz