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Extra newline with bash read?
- To: "Richardson,Anthony" <ARichard at stark dot cc dot oh dot us>
- Subject: Extra newline with bash read?
- From: Fabio at Colorado dot EDU (Fabio Somenzi)
- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 21:46:17 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: "'Gnu-Win32 List'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- References: <199705301343.JAA06726@dialup.oar.net>
- Reply-To: Fabio at Colorado dot EDU
>>>>> "R" == Richardson,Anthony <ARichard@stark.cc.oh.us> writes:
R> My shell scripts that use "read" to get user input aren't working.
R> Here's a simple example:
R> #!/bin/sh echo -n "input a1: " read a1 echo -n "input a2: " read
R> a2 echo "a1 = " $a1 echo "a2 = " $a2
R> It doesn't wait for input at "read a2" and a2 doesn't get set. Is
R> the "Enter" key being read as a <CR/NL> pair? Is there a fix?
You may want to try "C-j" instead of "Enter." It's a workaround rather
than a fix.
Fabio
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