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From: era@NIWOT.UCAR.EDU
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Subject: read bug in 4.4 /bin/sh?
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Date: 20 Mar 89 17:00:17 GMT
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Does anybody out there know what i/o redirection with the
Bourne shell's read command is *supposed* to do?

The following shell script reads the first word from itself
into the variable x and echoes it under SunOS 4.0.  However,
it hangs under OSx4.4 and Ultrix 2.2; if you type a line at
it while it's hung, it belches out "$0: illegal io".  Anybody
know who's "right"?
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#!/bin/sh
read x < $0
echo x = $x
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Ed Arnold, NCAR
era@ncar.ucar.edu