From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:59:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Message-ID: <7v7ianxtqv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <48A0705B.3030107@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:

> Petr Baudis schrieb:
>> 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
>
> Only if head is a built-in, otherwise you fork needlessly.  Not that
> this is a performance critical part, but I wouldn't call it "elegant".
>
> What's wrong with the following variant, already used a few lines up in
> the file?
>
> 	read yesno
> 	case "$yesno" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

That's the right way to spell it.  Sorry, I must have been too tired
when I did this.