On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:59:32PM +0100, Reece Dunn wrote: > >> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote: > >>> case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac > > does not work as expected. Replacing this with > > case "$(read yesno; echo $yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac > > would work as intended, as Mikael has pointed out. Wouldn't it be more elegant to case "$(head -n 1)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- 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