Lhunath (Maarten B.) wrote:
> Note that 'read' is a bash feature; not a POSIX shell feature. In that
> sense, "read" alone is limiting your "portability". So portability in the
> meaning of POSIX is out of the question.
Pardon me? `read' is a feature of every historical shell and standardized
by Posix. The bash implementation is a superset of Posix.
Chet
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