Joel Hammer wrote: % > Mucking about with IFS is not smart, as I said in my last message. % > Have a look at read's -d option, which will get you where you want to % > go. % > % I have checked: % man bash % The online bash reference manual % http://gnu.senet.com.au/bash-2.01/bashref.html#SEC17 % My bash O'Reilly book % My Unix in a nutshell book % My Linux in a nutshell book % % None of them mention the -d option in read. $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash2 $ help read read: read [-ers] [-t timeout] [-p prompt] [-a array] [-n nchars] [-d delim] [name ...] ... this signifies `raw' input, and backslash escaping is disabled. The -d option causes read to continue until the first character of DELIM is read, rather than newline. If the `-p' option is supplied, the string ...
Kurt -- People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
