On 2008-06-05, Stephane Chazelas wrote: .... > I'm not saying "read -d" is not useful,
I think it would be even more useful if it could take a string instead of just a single character, so that different actions could be taken depending on which delimiting was entered. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) .