Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Tristen Hayfield wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote: > > "Silva, Russell" wrote: > > > > > x=`/usr/bin/cat < temp`; > > > > I don't know what is causing your problem. I ran your testcase several > > times and never saw a failure, but from your description it seems like > > it's the kind of thing that might occur very rarely. > > > > My only suggestion is that if your true desire is to actually read the > > contents of a file into a variable, then the above construct is a fairly > > expensive way of doing it. This requires a fork/exec (an operation > > which is extremely slow under cygwin) of /bin/cat, whose purpose is only > > to read from one fd and write to another. If you can live with a > > bash-specific (?) construct, then x=$(< temp) should cause the same > > effect but much more efficiently, as the shell itself just reads the > > file without invoking any subprocesses. > > > > Brian > > One may also do: > read x < temp > in bash Actually, it's more like IFS='' read -rd '' x but you have the general idea... :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/