Corinna Thanks !! & Thanks Chet!! The Workaround is doing great.
Now the things are back in the places. Warm Regards Suren -----Original Message----- From: Chet Ramey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 7:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A small problem in Shell Scripts while using the built-in "read" function -- Options not recognised > 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'. Why the `-c'? `bash script' should work just fine. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- 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/