On 4/2/07, Kevin Markle wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) expressed precisely : > Kevin Markle wrote:
What does this mean please and or would you send me your copy that works fine? "$LOG" == > "". In these cases, the "hang" is 'cat' waiting for input from the command > line.
I think he means that in the line:
UPDATES_NEEDED=`cat $LOG | grep "updates detected" | tail -1`
cat $LOG... will hang if $LOG == "" because "cat" is waiting for input. -- -Andrew Louie -- 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/
