[BusyBox] Small ASH patch

Jordan Crouse jordanc at censoft.com
Wed Oct 2 08:45:03 UTC 2002


GNU bash, version 2.05.8(1)-release

(From the man page):

      -n nchars
                     read returns after reading nchars characters
                     rather than waiting for a complete  line  of
                     input.

Jordan

On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:05:26 +0400
"Vladimir N. Oleynik" <dzo at simtreas.ru> wrote:

> Jordan,
> 
> > Attached is a small patch to ash.c that adds support for the -n parameter 
> > of the builtin 'read' function - this allows one to read N characters 
> > instead of a single line.  Normally this wouldn't be an issue, 
> > but I found myself wanting it when I was writing a few scripts 
> > for a thin client platform - I like it better when you can enter Y 
> > or N without having to press ENTER.
> 
> Hmm. bash don`t support this option ;) I not agree this patches.
> I think, may be realising "-e" option for future...
> 
> 
> --w
> vodz
> 



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