From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:47 GMT
Subject: Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808111615260.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0808110657y24ac9526wca4acea3bddaec00@mail.gmail.com>

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.
> 
> Am I missing something ?

Yes.  "$()" does not return the status, but the output.

Ciao,
Dscho