From: Francis Moreau Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:00:28 GMT Subject: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1) Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0808110700x595448fco46d24a3e6582d024@mail.gmail.com> Hello I found this in git bisect: printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? ' case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the string reads from std input. Am I missing something ? Thanks -- Francis