Mark J. Reed wrote: > For what it's worth, I've had intermittent problems with bash and > while read loops where the loop aborts after one iteration whenever > there's nontrivial code in the loop body, on multiple platforms, not > just Cygwin. So this might not be a Cygwin issue. I've never been > ble to isolate the problem enough to file a bug report, unfortunately.
Thanks to all. The problem was a problem of this windows program attrib. /dev/null will solve this problem. :-) #!/bin/sh while read -r cLine do echo $cLine attrib ${cLine%%:*} "${cLine#*:}" < /dev/null done < 2restore4 br Matthias -- Don't Panic -- 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/