>Cheers - I just wanted to check that Bourne-style => non-POSIX (rather >than Korn-style <=> POSIX)
That is actually unclear to me; certainly I would like to have chapter and verse quoted of the relevant POSIX standard. I certainly believe that this should work: read value < from-file but I'm not sure that this should work: cat from-file | read value Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org