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

["Mikael Magnusson" <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/8/11 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>> I found this in git bisect:
>>
>>               printf >&2 'Are you sure [Y/n]? '
>>               case "$(read yesno)" in [Nn]*) exit 1 ;; esac
>>
>> which looks very weird since read(1) returns a status and not the
>> string reads from std input.
>>
>> Am I missing something ?
>
> Yes.  "$()" does not return the status, but the output.

But there is no output, since read doesn't print anything...
case "$(read yesno; echo $yesno)" in [Nn]*) could work, but looks
a bit strange. read yesno; case $yesno in [Nn]*) would be the usual
way to do things i think?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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