On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ed Vance wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:03 AM, Jean-Luc Leger wrote:
> > > Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
> > > > bk prs -hrv2.5.0.. | while read x
> >
> > by the way, shouldn't it be "$x" in the second line ?
> > or am I missing something ?
> >
> > JL
>
> man bash
> ...
> read [-ers] [-t timeout] [-a aname] [-p prompt] [-n
> nchars] [-d delim] [name ...]
> ^^^^
> Nope, no "$" on the variable name in this context. The reference
> is to the variable's identifier rather than its value.
He said _second_ line. Larry got $i there. In any case, for that
one
bk prs -hrv2.5.0.. | sed -e "s!.*!<body of the loop>!" | sh
would be simpler and more compact (with & instead of $i).
He doesn't have metacharcters in there, so it's safe...
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