On 30 Nov 2009, at 16:15, Chet Ramey wrote: > > 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 > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
My bad. I was under the impression `read` was a Bourne shell-only thing and not standardized under POSIX.