Hi, On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote: > I found this in git bisect: > > printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? ' > case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac > > which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the > string reads from std input. > > Am I missing something ? Yes. "$()" does not return the status, but the output. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html