I literally cut and pasted a portion of Svend's post. The portion I thought I used was ... ------------------------ ls | while read TEST do echo $TEST done ------------------------
I asked for 'ksh' and pasted. I was totally flabbergasted when I got the exact response Svend had posted. ----------------- Is the read command somewhere available? Up to now I wasn't able to find it. ----------------- I was intrigued and tried it again, but this time it worked properly producing the list of expected file names. And under sh and bash I would get the expected list of file names. That fact that it did not seem to reproduce on subsequent attempts is puzzling. While such things are possible I begin to question my sanity when I have trouble finding what could have printed that message. Grepping through strings of everything in bin failed to reveal where this might have come from. Unfortunately I did one too many exits in the rxvt shell window, and cannot even go back to ensure I entered the commands I believe I entered. All subsequent attempts have been well behaved. I fear that I may have been suffering from both caffeine and sleep insufficiency and cut and pasted too much. For the sake of my sanity I hope that someone else can reproduce this. neal _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com -- 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/