Petr Baudis schrieb: > 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 Only if head is a built-in, otherwise you fork needlessly. Not that this is a performance critical part, but I wouldn't call it "elegant". What's wrong with the following variant, already used a few lines up in the file? read yesno case "$yesno" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac René -- 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
