Re: read and REPLY
On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I am very new to script writing so pardon my ignorance. I have been
> working from the bash man page. It indicates that read (with no
> parameters) puts the line read into the predefined variable REPLY. My
> problem is that I don't seem to be able to *use* the variable. With a line
> like: echo "$(REPLY)" or echo $(REPLY) I get the error : REPLY command not
> found. If I try: echo REPLY the output is just REPLY.
> How do I get the contents of reply?
I'm not much of a shell programmer myself, but I think $(REPLY) will try
to execute the file REPLY in a subshell. However, you can access the
value of the variable REPLY with $REPLY (no parens). 'echo REPLY' will just
display "REPLY", but 'echo $REPLY' will echo the value of the variable
$REPLY.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Gerry
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