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

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 11, 2008, 14:15 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
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> I found this in git bisect:
> 
>               printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
>               case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
> 
> which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the
> string reads from std input.
> 
> Am I missing something ?
Yes.  "$()" does not return the status, but the output.

Ciao, Dscho

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