Re: Scripting command differences?


Subject: Re: Scripting command differences?
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 14:46:57 MDT


>
> YDL gives me read -p, which prints a prompt string and accepts input into a
> variable. The -p isn't available on RHL.
>
> Well, scratch my "A" in the class! Two scripts that ran fine here crashed
> there.
>
> Is this sort of difference common amongst the linii? Are there going to be
> more of these differences I should be aware of?

Somewhat.. but in your case it probabl y has to do with versions of
shells.

Does RH use bash 1.x or bash 2.x by default?

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff Ross
>
>

Regards,
Dan

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