Devin Teske <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, just as the subject-line says, ... here's an efficient and robust > >> spinner function compatible with many shells. > >> DONE=$( /bin/sh -c 'read -t 0 DONE; echo $DONE' ) > > > > Is this expected to be portable to other operating systems? The dash > > shell, used as /bin/bash in Ubuntu, does not acept the "-t" argument > > to the read builtin command. Using /bin/bash solves the problem. > > I was shooting for bourne-shell,
FreeBSD's /bin/sh is *not* a Bourne shell. > It's rather unfortunate that bourne-shell has what we need but is not > available on all operating systems since many OSes have started swapping > out bourne-shell for it's younger cousin. A traditional Bourne shell, such as Solaris's, does not implement read -t at all. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
