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

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2008, 16:23 UTC
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> $ $(read yesno) && echo yes || echo no
> n
> yes
> $ $(read yesno) && echo yes || echo no
> y
> yes
funny, seeing these 2 cases I'm wondering why Bash is not complaining...
-- 
Francis
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