2.8 Bourne shell question
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sun Sep 8 09:52:07 AEST 1985
> I tried this litle shell script on my 2.8BSD Bourne shell:
>
> read word < foo
>
> and it didn't do what I thought it would do...
> Is it possible to read from files? Is this just a 2.8 bug?
It's a defect in old Bourne shells. (I think it's documented, in fact;
look for something like "...except where specified no input output
redirection is permitted for [built-in] commands..." at the top of the
list of built-in commands.) The more recent (SysV) shells have fixed this.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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