It looks like the bottom line here is that the -t option is a rather
recent bash2 enhancement and so it's probably not wise to make Seattle
Firewall dependent on it.
As time permits, I'll take a look at replacing it with what Charles has
suggested.
-Tom
Thus spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On Wed,
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:41:33PM -0800, Jack Coates scribbled:
> Works fine here.
> [jack@felix jack]$ bash --help
> GNU bash, version 2.04.12(1)-release-(i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
>
> Is there a newer slackware package?
There's a slackball of 2.0.4b5, but I'll just compile the lastest
source.
Works fine here.
[jack@felix jack]$ bash --help
GNU bash, version 2.04.12(1)-release-(i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
Is there a newer slackware package?
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:17:27PM -0800, Tom E
Hmmm
root@localhost /root]# bash --help
GNU bash, version 2.04.11(1)-release-(i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
Usage: bash [GNU long option] [option] ...
bash [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
--debug
--dump-po-strings
--dump-strings
--hel
On 24 Jan 2001, at 21:19, Tom Eastep wrote:
> It exists in bash
>
> -t
>
> Causes the read to terminate after seconds...
I see. Except:
# bash
[root@bbs pigpen]# read -t 10 X
read: unknown option: -t
read: usage: read [-r] [name ...]
[root@bbs pigpen]# exit
exit
# rpm -q bash
bash-1.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:17:27PM -0800, Tom Eastep scribbled:
> Thus spoke David Douthitt:
> > I don't know. That "-t" option sure is missing alright: doesn't exist
> > in pdksh, tcsh, bash, or ash. You sure it exists? :-)
> >
> > What is it?
>
> It exists in bash
>
> -t
>
> Causes
Thus spoke David Douthitt:
> On 24 Jan 2001, at 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > David, is this anything like 'read -t' in less-stripped (non-lrp)
> > systems? Tom Eastep, the guy who wrote Seattle Firewall, had to
> > work around a missing '-t' option in read for the LRP package of
> > Seaw
On 24 Jan 2001, at 20:12, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Take a look at my shell-script e-mail client, where I do pretty
> much what you want, with a few extra features (look for the mail
> procedure):
> http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Packages/files/Utilities/grep
Thanks I'll look...
> The mainlin
> GOAL: To create a program "timeread" with syntax:
>
> timeread
>
> which returns the input value on stdout, or an exit value of 1 if
> timedout, or 2 if aborted by the user.
>
> METHOD:
>
> The current method I'm using is to spawn a process (background)
> which will sleep the appropriate amoun
On 24 Jan 2001, at 19:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David, is this anything like 'read -t' in less-stripped (non-lrp)
> systems? Tom Eastep, the guy who wrote Seattle Firewall, had to
> work around a missing '-t' option in read for the LRP package of
> Seawall...
I don't know. That "-t" optio
David, is this anything like 'read -t' in less-stripped
(non-lrp) systems? Tom Eastep, the guy who wrote Seattle
Firewall, had to work around a missing '-t' option in
read for the LRP package of Seawall...
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:38:38PM -0600, David Douthitt scribbled:
> I thought I had it fi
I thought I had it figured out but not so.
GOAL: To create a program "timeread" with syntax:
timeread
which returns the input value on stdout, or an exit value of 1 if
timedout, or 2 if aborted by the user.
METHOD:
The current method I'm using is to spawn a process (background)
which
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