Re: bug?

[Chet Ramey]

> the following does not work with the latest release of BASH from cygwin
> 
> <file while read arg; do
>     something ...
> done
> 
> it does work if i fix it as follows:
> 
> while read arg; do
>     something ...
> done <file
> 
> i am porting a bunch of stuff from MKS toolkit (too expensive now) to =
> cygwin.

Read the Bash FAQ, question F5.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/