Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality (and supposed problem with while).

2013-01-18 Thread Linus Swälas
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Pierre Gaston wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Linus Swälas wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Pierre Gaston >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Linus Swälas >>> wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Pierre Gaston wro

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality (and supposed problem with while).

2013-01-18 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Linus Swälas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Pierre Gaston > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Linus Swälas >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a similar problem to report as Fiedler Roman regarding read and >>> also >>> another problem regarding whil

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality (and supposed problem with while).

2013-01-18 Thread Linus Swälas
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Linus Swälas > wrote: >> >> I have a similar problem to report as Fiedler Roman regarding read and >> also >> another problem regarding while. Maybe the while case is intended behavior >> though. =) >> # w

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality (and supposed problem with while).

2013-01-17 Thread Pierre Gaston
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Linus Swälas wrote: > I have a similar problem to report as Fiedler Roman regarding read and also > another problem regarding while. Maybe the while case is intended behavior > though. =) > # It the below also a bug? > # while can't handle nulls, this doesn't work:

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality (and supposed problem with while).

2013-01-17 Thread Linus Swälas
I have a similar problem to report as Fiedler Roman regarding read and also another problem regarding while. Maybe the while case is intended behavior though. =) See comments in the script below. bash --version GNU bash, version 4.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Example script starts

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality

2012-12-20 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/20/12 6:21 AM, Fiedler Roman wrote: > OK, so if I understand correctly, following should be true: > > Referring to my e-mail from Mo 17.12.2012 09:35, it seems that you get the > "hypothetical output", which is correct, while the script on my side produces > different output. > > Hence t

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality

2012-12-20 Thread Fiedler Roman
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Chet Ramey [mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Dezember 2012 22:50 > An: Fiedler Roman > Cc: chet.ra...@case.edu; bug-bash@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: AW: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality > > On 12/17/12 3:34 AM, Fiedler Roma

Re: Questions to bash "read" builtin functionality

2012-12-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/14/12 6:28 AM, Fiedler Roman wrote: > Hello list, > > One of our bash-scrips failed with very low frequency but randomly. The > result was that exactly 1 byte was lost, so the string returned by "read -t > 1" was too short. The culprit seems to be the built-in read function itself, > the