Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2008, 14:18 UTC
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0808110718x2f63608ga3d2d77e317ce4eb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808111615260.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

Hello

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>

sorry I should have said that there's a status but no output...

>> Am I missing something ?
>
> Yes.  "$()" does not return the status, but the output.
>

But what's the output in that case ?

-- 
Francis