Re: git-bisect: weird usage of read(1)

Hello

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:

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I found this in git bisect:

              printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
              case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac

which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the
string reads from std input.

sorry I should have said that there's a status but no output...

quoted

Am I missing something ?

Yes.  "$()" does not return the status, but the output.

But what's the output in that case ?

-- 
Francis