On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 05:34:24PM +0530, Surendar Singh Bisht wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > I'm using bash 2.05.0(8)-release on win98. I'm confronting a small > problem in shell scripts execution while using the built-in "read" function. > > > > But the same script executes smoothly when I run this code on the command > line.
The script is running under sh which is ash, not bash. ash doesn't know these `read' options. As workaround prepend #!/bin/bash to your script or start it via `bash -c script'. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/