On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > "Jarzombek, Svend" wrote: > > > I am new to cygwin and try to move some ksh scripts to it. > > I am lacking the read command, e. g. like in > > > > cd /directory > > ls | while read TEST > > do > > echo $TEST > > done > > > > Is the read command somewhere available? Up to now I wasn't able to > > find it. > > ksh: > $ type read > read is a shell builtin > > Hmm... are you using it correctly? > Type this at a shell prompt, enter for both lines. > man ksh > /^ *read \[ > > As I'm not familiar with ksh, so: > -- *bash* usage example -- > #!/bin/bash > > cd / > ls | ( > while read TEST ;do > echo -n $TEST > done > )
Two points to note: 1) there's no need for the parentheses in the above expression -- in fact, they actually change the semantics, as the "while" will be invoked in a subshell. 2) the exact same command (with or without the parentheses) works in ksh, so I was unable to reproduce the OP's problem. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/