RE: [ILUG] Bourne Shell Q

From: Stephen_Reilly at domain dell.com
Date: Tue 12 Jun 2001 - 19:16:45 IST

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hmmm works in sh-2.04, but yeah, bit of a bash man myself ...

-----Original Message-----
From: Colm Buckley [mailto:colm at domain tuatha.org]
Sent: 12 June 2001 18:19
To: Stephen_Reilly at domain exchange.dell.com; Irish Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Bourne Shell Q

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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