Re: [ILUG] Bourne Shell Q

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Tue 12 Jun 2001 - 18:19:05 IST

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On Tuesday 12 June 2001 18:27, you wrote:
> read -t3 response
> if $response = "" then echo "non interactive" fi

That's a bashism. I don't think bog-standard sh has it. But, if this
is *Linux*, you're pretty much guaranteed to have bash, so...

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