The ‘read -r’ bashism.

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Cc: Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com>
Subject: The ‘read -r’ bashism.
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:00:38 +0900
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Dear all,

in the ‘checkbashisms’ bugs of a package I work on, there is the following:

> > checkbashisms' output:
> > > possible bashism in
> > > ./usr/share/EMBOSS/jemboss/utils/install-jemboss-server.sh line 607 (should
> > > be read [-r] variable):
> > >     read

I would like to forward this Upstream, but I have no clue of what the problem
is, and how important it is. I have read ‘https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh’;,
but found nothing there. Can somebody send me a pointer to some documentation?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

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