From: Stephen_Reilly at domain dell.com
Date: Tue 12 Jun 2001 - 18:37:31 IST
I swear I'm not making it up ! Although trying it on my 5.2 box
doesn't work at all . . . Go on everyone upgrade to 7 !!
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Airlie [mailto:airlied at domain csn.ul.ie]
Sent: 12 June 2001 18:31
To: Colm Buckley
Cc: Stephen_Reilly at domain exchange.dell.com; Irish Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Bourne Shell Q
my bash doesn't have it .. sure it's not a zshism ..
Dave.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Colm Buckley wrote:
> 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...
>
> Colm
>
>
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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