From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:49:45 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Message-ID: <20080811164945.GI32184@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640808110859r148550d2h833dae05b9e6544e@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:59:32PM +0100, Reece Dunn wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >>>               case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
> 
> does not work as expected. Replacing this with
> 
>                case "$(read yesno; echo $yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
> 
> would work as intended, as Mikael has pointed out.

  Wouldn't it be more elegant to

	case "$(head -n 1)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis