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From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: 2.8 Bourne shell question
Message-ID: <1450@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 18:40:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 18:40:29 1985
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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I tried this litle shell script on my 2.8BSD Bourne shell:

	read word < foo
	echo $word

and it didn't do what I thought it would do.  The script waited
until I typed something on my keyboard, then it said "illegal io".
Is it possible to read from files?  Is this just a 2.8 bug?

	Thanks!

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	Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp