You are correct. The pasted data is not echoed to the screen, but actually goes into the variable. Thanks for pointing this out. Regards, Willem On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Are you sure that it actually didn't paste anything? I've seen some > instances in telnet sessions where hitting speakup with slash just > said "paste", and it looked like the paste never happened when you > reviewed the screen, but when I then hit enter, I found that the > pasted command or whatever actually did get acted upon. > > Greg > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:25:41PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote: >> Hi, >> Why can i not paste into a read statment in bash? >> If i do: >> read varname >> from a bash prompt, the terminal expects input. >> when i try to paste a previously marked area, it acts asif nothing were >> marked.Is there a way that i can change the read statement so that paste >> will work? >> TIA >> Willem >> >> >> -- >> This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and >> e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the >> views of the CSIR. >> >> CSIR E-mail Legal Notice >> http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html >> >> CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions >> http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html >> >> For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the >> CSIR >> Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to >> HelpDesk at csir.co.za. >> >> >> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by >> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec >> Computers for their support. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> !DSPAM:4366000c271502122110406! >> >> > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDZinz7s9z/XlyUyARAn7hAKDRcrlp8FJaR0tgfpqWjIVjtuJMFACfTa5/ > BYuWRwqFhiGVESb7u+b4PfU= > =NcqJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to HelpDesk at csir.co.za. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support.
